random sized circle packing

I have an irregular surface and an unlimited list of random sized circles (within a range of min and max diameters). I want to pack the surface with the most circles from this list.

I have downloaded a few circle packing scripts but none seem to solve to fill the surface with random sizes. I may have missed one somewhere but would very much appreciate some pointer in the right direction here.

TIA

Robb

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Permalink Reply by John Harding on January 20, 2017 at 6:56am

Hello Robb,

Not Kangaroo, but we worked on this a couple of years back that should do the job. See here:

https://github.com/johnharding/AgentSystem/releases/tag/0.2.1

Best,

John.

Permalink Reply by Robb McDougle on January 20, 2017 at 7:52am

Many thanks John. I am playing around with this and it does seem to provide a path to solving my problem. Very interesting.

Is it possible to add some form of indicator when the result fails by overlapping any of the circles? Any thoughts as to how I might continue adding circles to the input count until such failure?

Robb

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on January 20, 2017 at 8:27am

You might want to see this thread.

Permalink Reply by Robb McDougle on January 20, 2017 at 10:24am

Thanks... I had seen that previously but never made it to page 2. That looks exactly like what I want but I am having difficulties with one of the components not delivering data to the solver. I do hope this can be resolved soon. Do you know if it works in Grasshopper v 0.9.0076?

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on January 20, 2017 at 10:45am

Maybe the custom goal(C#) requires to set the referenced assembly locations to your own copy of KangarooSolver.dll

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