pack spheres

Stop wasting space when packing spheres and cylinders into a rectangular box! Use this new eco-friendly tip for saving on shipping costs and reducing the amount of wasted cardboard in the world.

Jun 11, 2018

Design, Small Business

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Background: When packing a box for shipping, some objects can stack perfectly with no wasted space. However, some common shapes—for example, cylinders (e.g. toilet paper rolls) and spheres (e.g. oranges)—can’t be packed without wasted empty space in the box (Figure 1). Proposal: If someone orders a set of products that don’t pack together,…