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minus-squarepalmtrees2309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 days agoAren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 days agoThis here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days agoThe honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn’t any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it’s not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won’t be better than hexagons. But that video can die in a fire!
minus-squareLandless2029@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThis was my first thought. A circle filled with hexagons!
Aren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn’t any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it’s not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won’t be better than hexagons.
But that video can die in a fire!
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!