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There's lots of papers about that algorithm used on warehouse box stocking.
by ezconnect 4y ago
There's lots of papers about that algorithm used on warehouse box stocking.
- vidarh 4y agoMore generalised, the act of putting them together is a subset of bin packing, which is certainly one of the more studied problems of computer science, though NP-hard, and having a pile of rocks of different size complicates things substantially. Getting a decent approximation once you know the dimensions of the rocks is probably doable, but minimising the labour necessary to get the scans you need of each rock is also a huge challenge.