I am trying to arrive at a solution of building irregular 2d "pyrimids" or shapes. I only have the ability to use the following discreet thicknesses: 0.4, 0.8, 1.6, 2.4, 3.2, 4.7, 6.4

The idea is that a person will enter sets of number pairs (width,thickness) The thickness can be anything including "0". Groups are then determined and the thicknesses and widths are calculated. Here is an example:

1,2
1.5,3
2,5
1,4
3,0
2,1
1,3
2,2
4,1
1,4


The two groups would be the number pairs before "3,0" and the number pairs after "3,0". And the resulting width/thicknesses would be:


Group 1:
5.5,1.6
5.5,0.4
4.5,0.4
1.5,0.4
3,1.6
2,0.8


Put together group 1 would look like: 
             ________
        0.8 |________|____
      ______|             |
 0.4 |______|_____________| 1.6
 ____|____________________| 0.4
|_________________________| 0.4
|                         |
|_________________________| 1.6

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And then the same idea for group 2.


Thanks in advance.

In reply to Finding the simplest combination of descrete thicknesses that sums nearest to the target thickness. by doowah2004

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