Approach for packing 2D shapes while minimizing total enclosing area
- by Dennis
Not sure on my tags for this question, but in short ....
I need to solve a problem of packing industrial parts into crates while minimizing total containing area. These parts are motors, or pumps, or custom-made components, and they have quite unusual shapes. For some, it may be possible to assume that a part === rectangular cuboid, but some…