Circle Packing
The snub hexagonal tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 5 other circles in the packing (kissing number). The hexagonal gaps can be filled by exactly one circle, leading to the densest packing from the triangular tiling#circle packing.
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