Cookie Catan!
cookie combs
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The whole trick is consistent ball size.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just fill the pan and use cookie cutters after they’re baked.
I eat the scraps.
btw anyone know what the onset signs of diabetes is?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can also put the tray with cookies on it in the freezer, that can help keep them from spreading as much! Then throw it in the oven from frozen like. Or…firmed up like.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Interesting, but increasing the flour and baking soda seems a bit simpler.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That pan can fit 21 cookies
Opisek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It can clearity fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!
sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Isn’t it 2⁵?
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Voronoi cookies!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Shame about all the pentagons there.
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Sing the song!
🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake
Patches@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
But then everyone is happy. You get gooey and crunchy in one batch 🤣
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I thought that was a shadow 😄
Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating g
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
how do you know that’s the back and not the side?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
could also be a shadow?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 months 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.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck reading instructions. Amirite???
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 months 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 8 months 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.
Bloobish@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Hexagons are a internal function of the universe
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months 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.
mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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.
sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 8 months 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.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
32
Hoimo@ani.social 8 months ago
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.
Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 8 months 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.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
me after discovering the voronoi node:
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Off to make some hexacookies. Who wants one?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that’s one nacho.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s so dear of you to assume I have friends. That cookie is all mine, sweetie.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The overcooked back half.
TrackShovel@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Columnar basalt cookies
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Beebabe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Annnnd now I’m baking cookies
Thordros@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Replace em with bears and you’ll get many hexbears hexbear-shining hexbear-chapochat
felsiq@piefed.zip 8 months ago
I need soft circular bears in my life
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 8 months 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.
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Voronoi cookies!
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Someone hexed those cookies
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Du bist eine hexe
jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
The toppings are also cursed.
subtext@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What have you got against M&M cookies??
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
critical@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Bestagon cookies!
Empricorn@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Alright, as long as someone commented it!
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Hecks a good cookies.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re the hexagreatest!
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons
Hirom@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I suspect having round shape pushing against each other isn’t enought to get a hex shape.
In the picture, cookies are tiled such that they are surrounded by 6 other cookies. So it probably has to do with the tiling.