Topology
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Circle Packing with a Voronoi Diagram
When studying geometries and patterns in natural systems, eventually you will probably stumble across what is known as the Circle Packing Problem. Like many formal arrangements discussed on this blog, my first introduction to this problem was again through Phillip Ball’s series Nature’s Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts where he notes the optimal arrangement…
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Landforms created through Topological Analysis of Shapes – Example 4.7
I wasn’t sure where to put this example exactly, since it came as a follow up to Example 8.4, but the general scripting is less complex so I decided to put it a bit earlier. The general problem and solution has many applications beyond topography as well, but for landscape architects, maybe its most ready…