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irskep
on Sept 14, 2010
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Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know
Yes, there are several papers on the subject. I found a few by searching "rectangle packing algorithm."
harpastum
on Sept 14, 2010
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Although I didn't read it until after I had created my solutions, I found Andrea Lodi's paper [1] very interesting. It wasn't quite the approach I used, but it's a pretty thorough explanation of the problem and possible solutions.
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http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98....
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