Paul Johnsson wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have an intresting problem:
> 
> Consider this: Take a box with a specified height, with and depth. I
> would like to place a number of spheres with a specific radius in this
> box.
> 
> The problem is how to place the spheres in the box to get the maximum
> numbers of spheres that can fit in the box. I think that this is not a
> trivial problem, but is there a complete analytic solution at all (using
> with, height, depth and radius as parameters)?
> 
> I had the idea of creating a macro with "height, with, depth, radius" as
> input and get the locations of the spheres as output...
> 
> Any ideas?

There are some volume filling macros at twysts site:
http://macroscope.twysted.net/

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