Apollonian_sphere_packing

Apollonian sphere packing

Apollonian sphere packing

3D fractal composed of tangential spheres

Apollonian sphere packing is the three-dimensional equivalent of the Apollonian gasket. The principle of construction is very similar: with any four spheres that are cotangent to each other, it is then possible to construct two more spheres that are cotangent to four of them, resulting in an infinite sphere packing.

Apollonian sphere packing

The fractal dimension is approximately 2.473946 (±1 in the last digit).[1]

Software for generating and visualization of the apollonian sphere packing: ApolFrac.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Borkovec, M.; De Paris, W.; Peikert, R. (1994), "The Fractal Dimension of the Apollonian Sphere Packing" (PDF), Fractals, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 521–526, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.127.4067, doi:10.1142/S0218348X94000739, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-06, retrieved 2008-09-15
  2. [2]
    ApolFrac


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