New Approaches to Circle Packing in a Square
Szabó, Péter Gábor / Markót, Mihaly Csaba / García, Inmaculada / Specht, Eckard / Casado, Leocadio G. / Csendes, Tibor
In one sense, the problem of finding the densest packing of congruent circles in a square is easy to understand: it is a matter of positioning a given number of equal circles in such a way that the circles fit fully in a square without overlapping. But on closer inspection, this problem reveals itself to be an interesting challenge of discrete and computational geometry with all its surprising structural forms and regularities. As the number o...
