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Circle Pack

generators/circle-pack·v1.5.1

IN:1 OUT:1

SUMMARY

Circle Pack fills the chosen Shape with circles (Disc, Rectangle, in the XZ plane) or spheres (Sphere, Box), biggest first, with smaller ones filling the gaps down to Min Radius. With Shape set to Input Volume, the spheres fill the input's closed mesh and stay inside it.

Max Radius, Min Radius and Padding set the sizes and gaps, Max Count caps the number of circles, and Tries per Cell trades packing tightness for speed. Output Points gives one point per circle with Radius and Scale for the Instancer, or choose Outlines or Surface for ready-made geometry.

PARAMETERS

PAGECircle Pack

[+]Shape	Shape	The region to fill: a disc or a rectangle (circles in the XZ plane), a sphere or a box (spheres), or Input Volume: spheres fill the input's closed mesh.
Radius	Radius	The radius of the disc or sphere.
[+]Size	Size	The size of the rectangle (X and Z) or box.
Max Count	Count	Sets the maximum number of circles placed, up to 1,000,000. Fewer are placed when the space fills up first.
Tries per Cell	Triespercell	Sets the number of tries in every free cell of the packing grid for each size, from 1 to 16. More tries pack tighter but take longer.
Min Radius	Minradius	Sets the smallest circle radius. Raise it for fewer, bigger circles.
Max Radius	Maxradius	Sets the largest circle radius.
Padding	Padding	Sets the gap kept between circles. Negative values let them overlap.
Random Seed	Seed	Numerical value that initializes the randomization.
[+]Output	Output	Determines the output: one point per circle to instance on (Points), every circle as a closed line (Outlines), or as a filled disc or sphere (Surface).
Segments	Segments	The number of points around every outline and disc; spheres use half of it around and a quarter from pole to pole.
Copy Topology Info Back to CPU	Cpureadback	Enable copying the point count and topology information held on the GPU to the CPU.

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Free Extra GPU Memory

Freeextragpumem

Free memory that has accumulated when output memory has grown and shrunk.

INPUTS

Input 0 POP - Geometry

OUTPUTS

Output 0 POP - Geometry