How to randomly place objects in a plane?

Question

JavaScript

Task: randomly place objects in a plane (space), so that they do not intersect.
Objects of various sizes. tell me how it can be done? Are there any algorithms?

Answer 1

If you have a risk that due to the high density of filling it is a problem to fit all the objects, then this is a "3D bin packing problem". The task is NP-complete, there are many materials on its solutions - mostly heuristics.
There are loads of ideas here .
After tight packing (when the first part of the "put everything" problem is solved) you can "pull" the objects randomly to make them random.

Answer 2

It is possible, roughly speaking, to inscribe these objects in a square (cube) and thus place, check the intersections of such objects simply.