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Deeply inspired by Martin Krzywinski's Nature Biotechnology cover, April 2022, drawn from Konno et al. The style borrows Sakura; the packing is the front-chain method of Wang et al. (2006), behind circle packing. We built this toy to learn by living inside the construction.

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The April 2022 cover of Nature Biotechnology, by Martin Krzywinski — a tree of 235 million sequences drawn as cherry blossoms. Each blossom is a circle packed with circles, packed with smaller circles. Here the packing is driven by π: each digit says how many circles nest inside the next. Five levels deep, the last lit bright green against the purple — just like his cover. The idea and the mathematics are his; we built this toy to feel the packing from the inside.

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