Circles inside of a triangle

I need to put circles (curves) projected onto triangle (surface). Similar to the sketch attached). The circles need to be touching each other as well as the edge of the triangle.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 24, 2012 at 4:47pm

Since there's only one way to stack circles so that they touch all 6 neighbouring circles, why not just start with a hexagonal grid, put circles on the vertices and then scale them to fit your triangle?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ryan Treacy on October 24, 2012 at 11:07pm

David-

I'm a little new to grasshopper... could you explain more?

Thanks,

Ryan

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 25, 2012 at 5:03am

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Treacy on October 25, 2012 at 1:54pm

David,

Thanks...

I have one more question. I tried applying it to triangles that I have already but could not figure out how to do it...

If you could look at my grasshopper file and maybe help me out that would be great. I appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Ryan

Permalink Reply by Ryan Treacy on October 25, 2012 at 1:55pm

Heres the updated file

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on October 25, 2012 at 8:35pm

It's only an equilateral triangle that can be densely packed by David's definition or at all. If your triangles are not equilateral then you will not meet your original conditions (that all of the adjacent circles touch each other and the boundary).

Chris

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