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Packing of Spheres and Ellipsoids






Close Packing of BB's on right is 64%
Guess the Packing Fraction of the m&m's left and below



>Hospital MRI's of m&m's


>Monte Carlo Simulation of packing of Hard Ellipses


>Answer m&m's (ellipsoids of revolution with 2:1 aspect ratio) pack denser - 68%

For more stuff see recent colloquium in colloids section