Circle Packing!

Hi Shankar!

These definitions move the circles tangent to de previous 1 or to the centre circle.

I hope it these go in the right direction. What I'm trying to find out is how to move or generate the 3rd circle to be tangent to the other two......no success yet 8(

Anyway, let me know how it goes.

Regards

Evert

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TangentCircles.ghx, 166 KB
TangentCircles01.ghx, 180 KB

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Permalink Reply by shankar kothapuram on May 17, 2009 at 4:46pm

Hi Evert,

Thanks for the help. I tried doing that for a while and then realised that maybe if the points were created in grasshopper and not in rhino it may work better. Anyways i did try creating relating circles in grasshopper where they are always tangent to eachother. But this way is almost like drafting the circles in place, maybe i should work with just triangles and then add the circles right in the end. Anyways you can take a look at my file, but i think its more like how catia works.

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relational_circles.ghx, 298 KB

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Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on May 18, 2009 at 2:35am

Hi Shankar,

This page may be of help!

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TangentCircles.html

There are some demonstration projects to the left of the page, one specially about tangent circles centered at the vertices of a triangle.

Regards

Evert