Plates / Settlement
Circle packing · Seed 771903
Settlement
How this one is made
Rejection sampling. A centre is proposed at random, then grown until it would touch its nearest neighbour or the edge of the plate. If it cannot reach a minimum radius it is discarded and the position is forgotten. Five thousand proposals produce a few hundred survivors.
Reproduce it
This plate is seed 771903 through the circle packing generator. The raw file is at /plate/settlement.svg. Change the seed to see the same method produce something else:
