What are you working on? December 2011

jsalvatier

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

Computer improved packing of 423 circles in a square from this:

http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/csq/csq423.html

to this:

http://www.algit.eu/htmlji/Packntile/Packing_Contest_01052010/SQU_cir_423_pic.html

An innovative horizontal fracture enables a slightly denser packing, was of course found by this "packing AI".

(Eventually the links will show the same configurations, since we submit our results to Eckard Specht packomania's owner, who provides some additional details to the solution.)

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