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It turns out there are differing interpretations of what to do about the edges. For an "interior" packing (there is a technical word for this that I don't recal
by mturmon 2y ago
It turns out there are differing interpretations of what to do about the edges. For an "interior" packing (there is a technical word for this that I don't recall rn), following the link by @mbauman below, the n=3 case is:
http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/d1.html http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/d1.html
and the other cases are nearby.
- zokier 2y agocircle packing feels slightly different problem, especially as it doesn't tend to have any obvious algorithmic solutions available; circle packing produces irregular packings which I'm not sure I'd call super uniform btw what are the colors indicating on that page? its missing a legend and its not immediately obvious to me.
- mturmon 2y agoI get you. The purple circles are not kissing other circles, but the yellow ones -- not sure. In general it seems to have to do with how constrained they are. And there may be differently-arranged also-optimal packings - e.g. for N = 18 there are others besides what is shown.