Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...

Have you ever wondered about the best way to pack a finite number of identical spheres into a shape-shifting flexible container, like a convex hull? An intuitively simple problem concerning the best ...

The two-dimensional (2D) irregular packing problem is a combinatorial optimization problem with NP-complete characteristics, which is common in the production process of clothing, ships, and plate ...