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Re:Hexagonal Grids by cshimmin on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:06PM (#37957996)
Somewhat related, excellent youtube video: Hexagon is the Bestagon [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY

Re:Hexagonal Grids by amitp on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:34PM (#37958308)
You can briefly see the red blob logo at 7m 37s into the video. :-)
Re:Hexagonal Grids by aidenn0 on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:33PM (#37962233)
FWIW, I am a square-grid fanatic for tabletop games. Manmade structures just don't fit on a hex grid and 1.5 is a "close enough" approximation to sqrt(2) that you have 8 degrees of freedom instead of a mere 6.