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minus-squarepalmtrees2309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 day agoAren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 day agoThis here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
minus-squareLandless2029@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoThis was my first thought. A circle filled with hexagons!
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day 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!
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
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!
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!