[sugar] Mathematical Diversions 2

Sat Oct 4 21:51:09 EDT 2008

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I have written up an algorithm for quasi-optimal placement of items in the
Mesh View.  It involves linear algebra.  I have actually implemented it,
in less than 100 lines of python.  It is described here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Circle_positioning_algorithm

Implementation:

http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/discus.py

I am not sure whether this algorithm is of use for Sugar.

- --Ben
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