Self-similar space-filling packings in three dimensions

Fractals

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-301

  Baram, Reza Mahmoodi ^a   Herrmann, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apollonian Packing; Packing of Spheres; Self Similar Packing; Space Filling Packing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

APOLLONIAN PACKING; PACKING OF SPHERES; SELF-SIMILAR PACKING; SPACE-FILLING PACKING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

NEOGOBIUS;

EID: 4944231246     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X04002549     Document Type: Article

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