Circle Packing

Grouping circles on a surface has several purposes. It can be used to distribute equally spaced objects, reorganize a network, or simply for graphic work, as it is visually pleasing.

Applications

© Bs0u10e0 at flickr

Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 2012

© Michele Leidi, Dominik Zausinger, Min-Chieh Chen, Tom Pawlofsky

Packed Pavilion, ETH Zurich master thesis made out of cardboard. Shanghai, China.

Grasshopper

© ArchCompute

Circle packing script in Grasshopper