Compact packings of the plane with two sizes of discs

DOI10.1007/S00454-005-1172-4MaRDI QIDQ818685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tom Kennedy

Publication date 21 March 2006

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407145

zbMATH Keywords

circle packingstwo-size packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Abstract: We consider packings of the plane using discs of radius 1 and r. A packing is compact if every disc D is tangent to a sequence of discs D_1, D_2, ..., D_n such that D_i is tangent to D_{i+1}. We prove that there are only nine values of r with r<1 for which such packings are possible. For each of the nine values we describe the possible compact packings.

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