On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Fermat Spiral (sunflower) is not a bad packing algorithm. It could > be a general solution, but it is anything but freeform.
It's also suited best to many objects of exactly the same size, and not a more general set. I'm also not how sure how locally adaptive it would be as nodes came and went, or scaled. (Feel free to prove me wrong, though!) I agree it packs well otherwise...nature knows what's up. > -walter > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Indeed. There are many good layouts for Home view. (And I want to >> encourage more!) In the interest of keeping the topic clear though, I >> want to make sure that this thread focuses on a particular and more >> general layout problem, rather than becoming a long list of >> alternative layouts. In other words, I'm interested in algorithms for >> this particular layout, and not in alternative layouts (since >> placement with minimal overlapping is something we face in all views, >> and only secondarily relates to the "freeform" view in Home). >> >> - Eben >> >> PS. I'll probably start another thread on an "Extensible layout >> system" for Home view. I don't find the current satisfactory, so I'd >> like to outline my ideas for how it could work and get feedback on >> that as well. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'll just briefly mention http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7685 (patches) >>> which includes differently-shaped activity rings as well as a >>> 'sunflower' layout I rather like. >>> --scott >>> -- >>> ( http://cscott.net/ ) >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
