Layered circle packings

Layered circle packings

Given a bounded sequence of integers {d0,d1,d2, . . .}, 6 ≤ dn ≤M, there is an associated abstract triangulation created by building up layers of vertices so that vertices on the nth layer have degree dn. This triangulation can be realized via a circle packing which fills either the Euclidean or the hyperbolic plane. We give necessary and sufficient conditions to determine the type of the packi...

Apollonian Circle Packings

Circle packings are a particularly elegant and simple way to construct quite complicated and elaborate sets in the plane. One systematically constructs a countable family of tangent circles whose radii tend to zero. Although there are many problems in understanding all of the individual values of their radii, there is a particularly simple asymptotic formula for the radii of the circles, origin...

Apollonian Circle Packings

Figure 1: An Apollonian Circle Packing Apollonius’s Theorem states that given three mutually tangent circles, there are exactly two circles which are tangent to all three. Apollonian circle packings are produced by repeating the construction of mutually tangent circles to fill all remaining spaces. A remarkable consequence of Descartes’ Theorem is if the initial four tangent circles have integr...

Regular Circle Packings

Gap Distributions in Circle Packings

We determine the distribution of nearest neighbour spacings between the tangencies to a fixed circle in a class of circle packings generated by reflections. We use a combination of geometric tools and the theory of automorphic forms.