1970 experimental data provides sphere locations and a volumetric image of a packing of equal, hard spheres. John Finney from University College London created this dataset, which was one of the first sphere packings used as a representative porous medium for soil and sandstone modeling.
Use Cases
- Modeling soil permeability based on sphere packing geometry.
- Simulating sandstone cementation processes based on provided sphere locations.
- Generating synthetic volumetric images at custom resolutions based on the original sphere coordinates.
- Benchmarking computational packing algorithms against an experimentally imaged reference.
Strengths
- Data originates from a 1970 optical imaging experiment, providing a historical benchmark.
- Includes both original sphere locations and an example volumetric image.
- Sphere locations can be used to generate volumetric images at any resolution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- University College London
- Collection Method
- Optically imaged experiment.
- Time Range
- 1970