Splitting circles at points of tangency

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone could help me finding a way to split these circles (made with a circle packing component) at their points of tangency (intersections)

It should be pretty easy with Shatter component but I dont seem to succeed...

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Besides, I've started to work in a much more simple definition to see how Shatter component works, but the result is quite annoying: neither a curve nor an arc, as you can see in the following picture. How is this possible? They´re just two arcs, but seem to be recognised by GH as strings...which I dont understand

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on November 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on November 29, 2012 at 9:24pm

I believe this can be solved by constructing a tree with branches and items from the multiple intersect component but to be honest I don't know how to actually do that. What I'm showing above is a start to a verbose way of solving this...not efficient at all but maybe it illustrates the principle.

Permalink Reply by Nacho35 on November 30, 2012 at 6:36pm

I see...stupid mistake that one

Thank you so much for your help Chris, thanks to your idea I could finally start making progress again with the definition. I only wanted to ask you about an error Im getting in terms of accuracy: some circles are split well, but some others fail to split correctly at points of tangency.

You can see what I mean in the image below