• In geometry, sphere packing in a cube is a three-dimensional sphere packing problem with the objective of packing spheres inside a cube. It is the three-dimensional...
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    Sphere packing in a sphere is a three-dimensional packing problem with the objective of packing a given number of equal spheres inside a unit sphere. It...
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  • packing in a circle Sphere packing in a cube Croft, Hallard T.; Falconer, Kenneth J.; Guy, Richard K. (1991). Unsolved Problems in Geometry. New York:...
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    A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα, sphaîra) is a surface analogous to the circle, a curve. In solid geometry, a sphere is the set of points that are all at the...
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  • In crystallography, atomic packing factor (APF), packing efficiency, or packing fraction is the fraction of volume in a crystal structure that is occupied...
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    offer the best lattice packing of spheres, and is believed to be the optimal of all packings. With 'simple' sphere packings in three dimensions ('simple'...
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    {\displaystyle n} ⁠-cube with a point, or (inductively) by forming the suspension of an ⁠ ( n − 1 ) {\displaystyle (n-1)} ⁠-sphere. When ⁠ n ≥ 2 {\displaystyle...
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    optimal packing density of spheres could be surpassed by putting a sphere in each rhombicuboctahedron of the hypothetical packing which surpasses it.[citation...
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    Midsphere (category Circle packing)
    inscribed circles must belong to a single sphere. For example, a rectangular cuboid has a midsphere only when it is a cube, because otherwise it has non-square...
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  • Rubik's Cube Speedcubing Pocket Cube Rubik's Magic Rubik's Revenge Rush Hour (puzzle) Situation puzzle Sliding puzzle Snake cube Sokoban Soma cube Sphere packing...
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  • n-dimensional spheres of a fixed radius in Rn so that no two spheres overlap. Lattice packings are special types of sphere packings where the spheres are centered...
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  • important "equator" getting the lowest density. Cube mapping records the environment as the six faces of a cube. The image distortion is markedly reduced,...
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  • Dupin cyclide (inversion of a torus) Whitney umbrella Right conoid (a ruled surface) Apollonian gasket Apollonian sphere packing Blancmange curve Cantor dust...
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  • plays a significant role in sphere packing problems and the classification of finite simple groups. In particular, the Leech lattice is obtained in a simple...
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  • Steinitz's theorem (category Theorems in graph theory)
    angles between pairs of circles in a circle packing whose corresponding polyhedron has the desired relation to its sphere. In any dimension higher than three...
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  • exists a sphere (called the circumsphere) on which all four vertices lie, and another sphere (the insphere) tangent to the tetrahedron's faces. A regular...
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    Waterman polyhedron (category Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2013)
    packing spheres according to the cubic close(st) packing (CCP), also known as the face-centered cubic (fcc) packing, then sweeping away the spheres that...
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  • Euclidean plane (a generalization of Thue's theorem, a 2-dimensional analog of the Kepler conjecture). He also investigated the sphere packing problem. He...
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    efficient way of packing together equal-sized spheres and stacking close-packed atomic planes in three dimensions. For example, if plane A lies beneath plane...
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    rwth-aachen.de. Sphere packings, lattices, and groups, by John Horton Conway, Neil James Alexander Sloane, Eiichi Bannai [1] Zwiebach, Barton (2004). A First Course...
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    Rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    dodecahedrille) is a space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is the Voronoi diagram of the face-centered cubic sphere-packing, which has...
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    corresponds to a sphere packing of edge-length-diameter spheres centered on each vertex, or (dually) inscribed in each cell instead. In the hypercubic...
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  • also be seen as a projection of an n-unit cube of spheres in 3-dimensional space, viewed on the diagonal axis. There are more spheres than circles because...
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    colours together" or "all numbers in order". The most famous of these puzzles is the original Rubik's Cube, a cubic puzzle in which each of the six faces can...
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    Cubic crystal system (category Cubes)
    of a central atom in the structure. Each sphere in a cP lattice has coordination number 6, in a cI lattice 8, and in a cF lattice 12. Atomic packing factor...
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  • Hyperplane Lattice Ehrhart polynomial Leech lattice Minkowski's theorem Packing Sphere packing Kepler conjecture Kissing number problem Honeycomb Andreini tessellation...
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    the 3-spheres in the densest known packing of equal spheres in 4-space; its kissing number is 24, which is also the same as the kissing number in R4, as...
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    Cuboctahedron (redirect from Rectified cube)
    has a dual tessellation; the cell centers in a tessellation are cell vertices in its dual tessellation. The densest known regular sphere-packing in two...
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    In crystallography, interstitial sites, holes or voids are the empty space that exists between the packing of atoms (spheres) in the crystal structure...
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  • (Chapters 16–17: Geometries on Three-manifolds I, II) George Maxwell, Sphere Packings and Hyperbolic Reflection Groups, JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA 79,78-97 (1982)...
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