The placement of objects so that they touch in some specified manner, often inside a container with specified properties. For example, one could consider a sphere packing, ellipsoid packing, polyhedron packing, etc.
Packing
See also
Barlow Packing, Box-Packing Theorem, Circle Packing, Ellipsoid Packing, Groemer Packing, Hypersphere Packing, Kelvin's Conjecture, Kepler Problem, Kissing Number, Packing Density, Polyhedron Packing, Space-Filling Polyhedron, Sphere Packing, Spherical Covering, Spherical Design, Triangle PackingExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Eppstein, D. "Covering and Packing." http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/cover.html.Friedman, E. "Erich's Packing Center." http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/packing.html.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
PackingCite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Packing." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Packing.html