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About a month ago I wrote my first serious post in this blog. It was about circle packings . Well, that’s nothing special because pretty much everybody knows what a circle packing is and many have used it in the field of generative art to produce stunning images and patterns. But what most people don’t know is how many uses such a packing has in the context of discrete differential geometry. Quite interesting for instance is the so called CP mesh. Originally developed to rationalize freeform surfaces in architecture and design, a CP mesh is a triangle mesh whose incircles form a pa

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