The Fermat Spiral (sunflower) is not a bad packing algorithm. It could be a general solution, but it is anything but freeform.
-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 > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar