Hints for formatting the data of your submitted packings

To ensure that all your submitted packings will be shown at packomania as soon as possible (and to minimize the overhead of renaming and editing the files) I like to request you for sending all packings in a common format.
  1. The radii, author name(s) and coordinates of each packing should be put in an extra file named with the extension .pck as follows. For example,

    "ccin34.pck" (for Circles in a CIrcle with r_i = i and N=34),
    "ccis23.pck" (for Circles in a CIrcle with r_i = i^(-1/2) and N=23),
    "scu12.pck" (for equal Spheres in a CUbe with N=12), and so on.

    The prefixes are the same as the names of the subdirectories of packomania.

  2. It would be great if you can write the coordinates of each packing in the following format:

    radius
    your name(s) here
    -0.86316710103267    0.406124264223147    z_coordinate_in_3D
    0.566009599820516    0.7058690726472174    z_coordinate_in_3D
    -0.63521679012343    -0.582420752358981    z_coordinate_in_3D
    0.640421565501216    -0.5058241354410553    z_coordinate_in_3D
    -0.05910602881140    0.1526797786896851    z_coordinate_in_3D
    -0.44254559148916    0.5771329999083729    z_coordinate_in_3D
    0.141487900344812    0.66697902042574066    z_coordinate_in_3D
    -0.63569636970639    -0.029203828101066    z_coordinate_in_3D
    0.584039910169077    0.08986199788658343    z_coordinate_in_3D
    -0.00095887178982    -0.545457690476027    z_coordinate_in_3D




  3. All files may be zipped into an archive file.
Thank you very much for your cooperation!


©  E. Specht     14-Mar-2012