There are tutorial about d3-force here:

https://tomroth.com.au/d3/

Apparently d3 is "chart" graph software.

I'm thinking that a good programmer could adapt the js code to nodeeditor and MoI, to do the "Gem Paving".

Do not know how to apply the repulsion to nodes on a brep surface which is 3D, but locally relatively flat.

- Brian