Circle packing without scaling

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Permalink Reply by Riccardo Majewski on January 23, 2015 at 2:02am

In theory and in practice is impossible to fill "well" a sphere with just 1 size of circles.

(not as good as flat honeycomb pattern)

By using kangaroo, in this small definition random point are constrict to the surface of a sphere (force=0) and then equally distanced with sphere collide component.

(enable kangaroo, then timer, then set bool to false, then slowly increase radius slider)

P.S. I use a "fake" Spring component (stiffness=0 and upper cutoff to 0.01) to avoid this error:

" 1. Solution exception:Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

Parameter name: index "

Can someone clarify this point?

How to do the same solution (just pull to surf + sphere collide) without subterfuges?

Permalink Reply by Riccardo Majewski on January 23, 2015 at 2:48am

Oh sry, I probably misunderstand "fixed radius".

This def keep a fixed radius for each circle during the simulation.

(Like first above, rough simulation: distances are simulated as chords in the sphere)

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Permalink Reply by Petras Vestartas on January 23, 2015 at 1:33pm

Hi Riccardo,

Thanks for the definition it works as I wanted:)

Best,
Petras