Sphere Packing

[encephalon]

stumbled across a real life sphere packing example

Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?

Can You Swim in Shade Balls?

[DanielPiker]

Frustrated sphere packings, grain boundaries and dislocations are fascinating.

Circle packing with fixed radius and fixed number of circle for each radius

With a few small changes it was possible to use this to simulate granular convection, sometimes called the ‘Brazil nut effect’ - the tendency of larger particles to rise to the top when their container is shaken, such as Brazil nuts in a box of muesli! brazilnut.gh (30.2 KB)

Daniel Piker

Self organising steel balls explain metal heat treatment

Bubble Raft Model - part 1

[encephalon]

thanks @DanielPiker i was wondering about those “seams” which in that case are called grain boundary, i was hypothesizing if it had anything to do with the surrounding boundaries of the container. but in that case they are just mere stacking results which start at different angles. i would have not thought that stacking spheres which are round can have further complexities.