Geometric Optimisation for Industrial Challenges
Space … It often is a scarce and costly resource. That’s why many like to use it wisely, whether it’s industry, the restaurant business or indeed agriculture. In this article on Medium, we show how a mathematical approach to two actual industrial challenges can help find valid and even optimal solutions.
Packing circles in the desert. This rectangular grid is not the most dense packing possible though. A hexagonal grid would be, assuming all radii are equal. Bees know that … or do they?
