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The humble pallet is the red blood cell of civilization. There's a ton of really cool optimization ideas like this in Industrial Engineering - factory production schedule optimizations, path optimizations, lots of knapsack problems. What a treat that there are people willing to pay for this kind of work.
I've had some friends in the logistics industry ask about a mobile app for this. How hard would it be to convert that to mobile? Are you depending on some complex libraries for the solver, or did you implement the algorithm yourself? I have 0 to no knowledge of C#.
I implemented the algorithm myself and although I don't have much experience with mobile apps programming I think that converting it to other programming languages or adapting it for other frameworks would be fairly easy. The real problem is the 3D rendering which is done using WPF 3D (Windows only), so I would need to completely rework it.
Ah! That's a pretty much orphan subject yet the world is constantly moving pallets. For pallet stability you would like to have a convex perimeter so the stretch wrapping maintains the boxes effectively. And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance. But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness. A solver proposing stacking patterns with these constraints would be outstanding.
Should lighter boxes be higher, so they don't get crushed? Or again, doesn't matter.
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I implemented the algorithm myself and although I don't have much experience with mobile apps programming I think that converting it to other programming languages or adapting it for other frameworks would be fairly easy. The real problem is the 3D rendering which is done using WPF 3D (Windows only), so I would need to completely rework it.
Even if mobile v1 was simple level by level text output, it'd probably still be useful.
I've had some friends in the logistics industry ask about a mobile app for this. How hard would it be to convert that to mobile? Are you depending on some complex libraries for the solver, or did you implement the algorithm yourself? I have 0 to no knowledge of C#.
I implemented the algorithm myself and although I don't have much experience with mobile apps programming I think that converting it to other programming languages or adapting it for other frameworks would be fairly easy. The real problem is the 3D rendering which is done using WPF 3D (Windows only), so I would need to completely rework it.
Ah! That's a pretty much orphan subject yet the world is constantly moving pallets. For pallet stability you would like to have a convex perimeter so the stretch wrapping maintains the boxes effectively. And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance. But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness. A solver proposing stacking patterns with these constraints would be outstanding.
Does center of mass matter? Or not so much. Should lighter boxes be higher, so they don't get crushed? Or again, doesn't matter.
Ah! That's a pretty much orphan subject yet the world is constantly moving pallets. For pallet stability you would like to have a convex perimeter so the stretch wrapping maintains the boxes effectively. And also criss-crossing boxes for shear resistance. But you need to align as much boxes corners as possible to get vertical stiffness. A solver proposing stacking patterns with these constraints would be outstanding.