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Agreed. minimizing waste is an important goal but this is a bad example.
by jccalhoun 6y ago
Agreed. minimizing waste is an important goal but this is a bad example.
- Someone 6y agoA real life example of a related problem I know is cutting leather, say to make shoes. There, the shape to be cut is constant, but the surfaces they have to cut from (hide shapes and their defects) are different for each hide. Cutting cigar wrappers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar#Wrapper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar#Wrapper) out of tobacco leaves is a similar problem (https://patents.google.com/patent/US4275627 https://patents.google.com/patent/US4275627 has a good description). I once read about software for doing that, but can’t find that.