Conformally Symmetric Circle Packings: A Generalization of Doyle's Spirals
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Mathematics
- Vol. 10 (1) , 141-150
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10586458.2001.10504437
Abstract
From the geometric study of the elementary cell of hexagonal circle packings—a flower of 7 circles—the class of conformally symmetric circle packings is defined. Up to Möbius transformations, this class is a three parameter family, that contains the famous Doyle spirals as a special case. The solutions are given explicitly. It is shown that these circle packings can be viewed as discretization s of the quotient of two Airy functions. The online version of this paper contains Java applets that let you experiment with the circle packings directly. The applets are found at http:/www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/Publications/online/cscpOnline/Applets.htmlKeywords
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