hexagonal

Hexagonal packing is good but hexagonal packing into a hexagon appears to be leaving the edges of your search radius uncovered.

The tutorial on hexagonal grids [1] a few days back had better data viz than this Nate Silver post.

Also instead of a square shaped range you can get a hexagonal range by dividing corner boxes diagonally to two and then checking which half of square the boid is.

Actually there is a simple 3D analog of the hexagonal grid, which occurs in crystal structures.

Somewhat interestingly there are two variants, known in crystallography as Face-Centred Cubic and Hexagonal Close Packing.

Flew out of Rome a few years ago...very cool seeing this hexagonal lake and knowing it is nearly 2000 years old.

For example, in the line drawing example, I have a generic function that creates a hexagonal shaped grid (of hexagons)[1].

I spend my work days simulating advanced nuclear reactors that have hexagonal fuel assemblies.

That is why I am preparing a demo that is a little bit different from the classical example: an Hexagonal Game of life.

Note that this telescope has sorta been in 'competition' with the Thirty Meter Telescope--they're similar technologies being used and they even use basically the same hexagonal submirrors.

For a given shape of map (rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, parallelogram, etc.) I generate a set of cube hex coordinates.

I'm the only one that see an hexagonal pattern in the image?

Yes but this analogy only holds true if every other car has hexagonal wheels, and the apple watch "car" has circular ones.

Every greengrocer "knows" the answer: hexagonal close packing.

For example, reusing the signaling example above, the "stop" sign doesn't have to be a hexagonal red shape, but some early civil engineer figured that shape is the most adequate.

I suppose there was some "back visibility", since the workstations were set up on round (might have been hexagonal) tables, so it would have depended on where you sit.

Hexagonal architettures combined with a command processing pipeline help in defining test boundaries and entry points.