I am a PhD student researching the irregular 2D strip packing problem (think of arranging garment pattern pieces on a long roll of fabric). Is there existing software that meets the following criteria? integrates with Python can handle geometric information such as placement and shape of garment pattern pieces can generate images of pattern piece arrangements The image below shows the type of image I would like to be able to produce. Image taken from An iterated local search algorithm based on nonlinear programming for the irregular strip packing problem by Imamichi et. al. (2009) Continue reading...
