Coding Challenge #50.1: Animated Circle Packing - Part 1

In this multi-part coding challenge, I demonstrate how to use a circle packing algorithm. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges...

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References:
💻 Various Circle Packing Tutorials: http://julienleonard.com/tutorials.html
🗄 Circle Packing on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Circle Packing by Marius Watz
1:09 Create a Circle class
3:06 Add show()
4:22 Create an ArrayList
5:34 Null pointer exception
6:26 Add a grow() function
6:52 Add an edges() function
9:25 Add new circles at random x, y
10:07 Only add valid circles
14:03 Check for overlapping circles
16:02 Make sure circle is not checking itself
20:53 Seed circles based on pixel color
22:06 Read the pixels of an image
23:30 Add circles based on brightness of pixel

Editing by Mathieu Blanchette
Animations by Jason Heglund
Music from Epidemic Sound

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