Re: [algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-22 Thread Mahendran MaheM
i dnt thnk it is gud to find the volume of the box, becoz a best fit vol box may have higher length or hight or width,,,... so LET JUST TRY MY IDEA,. step1: first get that which box is taken to be first insert that step2: then select all the boxes which having

[algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-22 Thread Chi
This is also called bin packing. This is a NP-(Hard) problem. There is no good algorithm to find a solution. All the code you published here a heuristics. Here is a good tutorial: > http://www.developerfusion.com/article/5540/bin-packing/ On Sep 22, 9:12 am, vikas kumar wrote: > you can search f

[algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-22 Thread vikas kumar
you can search for box stacking problem in google. There is a DP method. On Sep 22, 12:11 am, Dave wrote: > Certainly having a smaller volume is necessary for a box to fit in > another box, but it is not sufficient. E.g., a box of size 1 x 1 x 1 > will not fit in a box of size 2 x 2 x 1/2. > > Da

[algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-22 Thread Yellow Sapphire
We can first sort the dimensions of each box. For example if the dimensions of a box is L=10, B=12, W=6 then convert it to L=12, B=10, W=6. The above step is not needed if the problem states that L>B>H for all boxes. Then using a multi-key sorting we can sort all the boxes in ascending order (or

[algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-21 Thread Dave
Certainly having a smaller volume is necessary for a box to fit in another box, but it is not sufficient. E.g., a box of size 1 x 1 x 1 will not fit in a box of size 2 x 2 x 1/2. Dave On Sep 21, 1:16 pm, rajess wrote: > find the volume of boxes as v=l*b*h > sort boxes in volumes in descending or

[algogeeks] Re: Inserting a box with lesser dimension into a box of bigger dimensions than that.

2010-09-21 Thread rajess
find the volume of boxes as v=l*b*h sort boxes in volumes in descending order and this is the way to insert boxes one into another On Sep 21, 7:55 pm, Rashmi Shrivastava wrote: > If there are n number of boxes and each with different dimensions and your > job is to insert one box having lesser di