Two Dimensional Bin Packing

Solomon Bothwell

A 2D bin packing library based on on Jukka Jylänki's article "A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin - A Practical Approach to Two-Dimensional Rectangle Bin Packing."

This library is intended for offline packing. All algorithms heuristics and optimizations from Jukka's article are included.

A web demo made with Flask and ReactJS is available "here" Packing performance varies drastically with different combinations of optimizations and datasets, so its important to under the settings and test a variety of them.

Example Usage:

In [1]: import greedypacker

In [2]: M = greedypacker.BinManager(8, 4, pack_algo='shelf', heuristic='best_width_fit', wastemap=True, rotation=True)

In [3]: ITEM = greedypacker.Item(4, 2)

In [4]: ITEM2 = greedypacker.Item(5, 2)

In [5]: ITEM3 = greedypacker.Item(2, 2)

In [6]: M.add_items(ITEM, ITEM2, ITEM3)

In [7]: M.execute()

In [8]: M.bins
Out[8]: [Sheet(width=8, height=4, shelves=[{'y': 2, 'x': 8, 'available_width': 0, 'area': 6, 'vertical_offset': 0, 'items': [Item(width=5, height=2, x=0, y=0)]}, {'y': 2, 'x': 8, 'available_width': 4, 'area': 8, 'vertical_offset': 2, 'items': [Item(width=4, height=2, x=0, y=2)]}])]

Algorithms

"Shelf"

"Guillotine"

"Maximal Rectangles"

"Skyline"

General Optional Parameters:

All optimizations are passed in as keyword arguments when the GreedyPacker instance is created:

Item Rotation

Item rotation can be disabled with the keyword argument rotation=False

Item Pre-Sort

Items can be pre-sorted according to a number of settings for the 'sorting_heuristic' keyword argument:

ASCA: Sort By Area Ascending
DESCA: Sort By Area Descending (This is the default setting)
ASCSS: Sort By Shorter Side Ascending
DESCSS: Sort By Shorter Side Descending
ASCLS: Sort By Longer Side Ascending
DESCLS: Sort By Longer Side Descending
ASCPERIM: Sort By Perimeter Ascending
DESCPERIM: Sort By Perimeter Descending
ASCDIFF: Sort by The ABS Difference Between Sides Ascending
DESCDIFF: Sort By The ABS Difference Between Sides Descending
ASCRATIO: Sort By The Ratio of The Sides Ascending
DESCRATIO: Sort By The Ratio of The Sides Descending
False: Pack in the order added to the binmanager

Algorithm Specific optmizations/settings:

See the algorithm specific pages linked above.

install notes

Requires Python>=3.0.

tests

python -m unittest test

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