# Spatial Relationship?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 28, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-relationship/741581 "2015-12-28T18:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-relationship/741581/1 "2015-12-28T18:06:37Z")
Is there a term for the ability to look at a set of objects of various shapes and sizes and select a larger container and have all the smaller ones fit in without loads of left over space? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-relationship/741581/2 "2015-12-28T18:18:33Z")
Do you mean [packing problems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problems)? ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-relationship/741581/3 "2015-12-28T18:33:20Z")
Yes! Exactly. Is there a name for a person who excels at “packaging problems”? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-relationship/741581/4 "2015-12-28T19:53:29Z")
Someone who does it in the mundane sense is a packer. People studying it as a theoretical science are, I guess, mathematicians, geometricians and topologists, for a start.