Bestagon cookies!
cookie combs
Submitted 15 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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critical@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They’re the hexagreatest!
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Hecks a good cookies.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
I thought that was a shadow 😄
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
ONE. That’s how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you’re feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s so dear of you to assume I have friends. That cookie is all mine, sweetie.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The overcooked back half.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Someone hexed those cookies
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
Du bist eine hexe
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
The toppings are also cursed.
TrackShovel@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Columnar basalt cookies
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 11 hours ago
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating g
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
could also be a shadow?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any household grade ovens really provide even heat, maybe if you use them with the rotating fan thing, but certainly not in standard mode. You need to spend the big bucks on professional kitchen grade stuff for that.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I think that depends on the fiction between each item / cell, and the plane.
I think soap bubbles for example will always form hexagons.
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Replace em with bears and you’ll get many hexbears hexbear-shining hexbear-chapochat
felsiq@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
I need soft circular bears in my life
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 11 hours ago
It’s what all of us really are at hexbear: circle bears. We only developed the hexagonal shape from pushing against each other over time - the result of countless struggle sessions. But at heart, even now we’re still just sweet, circular bears once you look beneath the hard hexagonal edges wrought by all the outdoor cats and stacked rocks.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
Hoimo@ani.social 1 hour ago
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass oiyt, presumably to protect myself.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
me after discovering the voronoi node:
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Voronoi cookies!
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
No they don’t (necessarily))??
Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.
Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.
sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 9 hours ago
Bees literally do not use hexagons, they make roughly round shapes and the force of the surrounding cells compresses them into hexagons. This is called self-organization and it’s observable in bubbles as well.
mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
It’s not a plain tiling problem, it’s a circle packing problem. The optimal euclidean circle packing results in each cookie having six cookies around it, and so when they melt, hexagons.
Bloobish@hexbear.net 10 hours ago
Hexagons are a internal function of the universe
dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.
Beebabe@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Annnnd now I’m baking cookies
Thordros@hexbear.net 14 hours ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Fuck reading instructions. Amirite???
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wonder if this relates to them having six legs somehow. Like, they’re able to measure where the next hex should be based on leg length or something.
Hoimo@ani.social 1 hour ago
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Off to make some hexacookies. Who wants one?
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 23 minutes ago
Sing the song!
🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons