# About CirclePack

This is "CirclePack", software for creation, manipulation, analysis, and display of circle packings. If you want to know more about this topic see

"Introduction to Circle Packing: the Theory of Discrete Analytic functions" by Ken Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Note that CirclePack is primarily a experimental research platform, so it is continually a "beta" version. Knowing the topic is of wider interest, I have tried to make the interface somewhat user friendly, in particular through "scripts" available on the CirclePack web site. For bug reports or comments, email me at kens@math.utk.edu.
The software is written in Java, version 1.6 or higher. Heavy computations can make use a shared library of C++ routines, if that is available.
I wish to acknowledge the many people who have helped with development of this program over several years (with my apologies to anyone I might have overlooked): Thanks to the National Science Foundation for support of my research. My work with students has resulted in many program features: Tomasz Dubejko, G. (Brock) Williams, Woodrow Johnston, Jason Howard, James Ashe, and Gerald Orick. For special help with Java and C++ programming, Ben Pack and Sam Reynolds.

Copyright (C) 1992--2009. Notice: The program "CirclePack" is copyrighted by Ken Stephenson. It may be used and distributed under the terms and conditions of the "GNU General Public License".