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Re:Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know by stevejohnson on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:47PM (#1692010)
Yes, there are several papers on the subject. I found a few by searching "rectangle packing algorithm."
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Re:Are you up to the challenge? Dropbox wants to know by harpastum on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:50PM (#1692021)
Although I didn't read it until after I had created my solutions, I found Andrea Lodi's paper [1] very interesting. It wasn't quite the approach I used, but it's a pretty thorough explanation of the problem and possible solutions.

[1] PDF http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98....

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