Hexagons are the bestagons
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Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m very happy this has caught on.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah yes, bestagons
TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The hexagreatest
danielbln@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s… thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.
swab148@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Tiger fly
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 months ago
There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.
finkrat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!
Mothra@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Yes, this is how I relate to bees.
CJOtheReal@ani.social 5 months ago
Bestagons
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bugs love science, simple as
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Boy that’s One Committed Bee!
Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 5 months ago
I believe the hexagonal tiling maximes area while minimizing perimeter, right?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s just what happens when wax deforms from pressure. You can do the same thing with plastic straws, if you pack them tightly, or compress them with your hands.
Abraxiel@hexbear.net 5 months ago
A circle should have the greatest area per perimeter and I can’t think of a regular polygon with more sides that tessellates.
mtchristo@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What’s their problem with right angles.
emuspawn@orbiting.observer 5 months ago
C’mon man, don’t be a square.
casino@feddit.nu 5 months ago
Less volume per unit of surface area
maniel@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Why does it look like a fly?
paradiso@lemm.ee 5 months ago
sssshhhh is bee
chitak166@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Interesting. I haven’t really connected hexagons and circles like this.
Magnetar@feddit.de 5 months ago
It’s a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see en.wikipedia.org/…/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Bees would be the best goddamn software architects…
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 5 months ago
This whole time bees were drawing Satanic summoning circles, also originally known as Pagan fertility stars before Christians culturally appropriated it.