Circle Packing
The Rhombitrihexagonal tiling can be used as a circle packing, placing equal diameter circles at the center of every point. Every circle is in contact with 4 other circles in the packing (kissing number). The gap inside each hexagon allows for one circle, for a denser packing with kissing number 5.
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