Implement automatic tile tetris button

[xStrom]

There should be a function that takes all the images and fills the whole screen perfectly tiled with the images. Zoom changes as necessary.

[xStrom]

It's an area of active research. Plenty of best-effort type approaches. Need to figure out which algorithm to use.

• Survey on two-dimensional packing - outdated but succinct overview of techniques
• A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin - A Practical Approach to Two-Dimensional Rectangle Bin Packing by Jukka Jylänki - February 27, 2010 - a more recent overview of techniques
• New Improvements in Optimal Rectangle Packing by Eric Huang and Richard E. Korf - 2009
• Optimal rectangle packing by R. Korf, Michael D. Moffitt, M. Pollack - 2010
• Optimal Rectangle Packing: An Absolute Placement Approach by Eric Huang and Richard E. Korf - 2014
• rectpack - GPL v3 implementation of some of Huang and Korf's work
• Related papers to the absolute placement paper
• A skyline heuristic for the 2D rectangular packing and strip packing problems by Lijun Wei, Wee-Chong Oon, Wenbin Zhu, and Andrew Lim - 2011
• Which rectangle sets have perfect packings? by Florian Braam and Daan van den Berg - 2021

There are also some existing implementations. Most don't seem based on any recent research, but might be worth surveying.

• PackingSolver
• rectpack
• rect_packer
• rectpack2D
• rectangle-pack
• texture-packer

.. and probably some others out there.

It might also be worth doing some sort of hybrid adaptation of a good algorithm, because for Slark we don't really care about optimal packing as much as accommodating rough predefined locations of certain user-defined images.