Who told aliens to use Hexagons?

[SinsWage]

*Tips hat to Milo*

[ArcherofAiur]

How are you going to stop him from saying words? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, so when they bark they shoot bees?

They are called broodlords.

And yes. I am.






*Broodlords attack Nicol*

*Its super effective!*

[Hammy]

It has something to do with the proper use of space. For example, the cells from a bee hive are hexagonal, because thats the best way to use the very limited space that they have.

Yeah my first thought when I saw the thread title. Bees are indeed awesome

Benzene is the most stable carbon cycle and it has the form of a hexagon (unless you wanna talk about chair conformation and such but this is for cyclohexane anyways). Most organic compounds contain at least one benzene so they are probably taking their inspiration from there.

Yeah that could be a reference, but why would one exclude the chair conformations when looking for carbon-cycle stability They could have made pylon matrices chair shaped! We do see lots of aromatic cycles in organic compounds though.
There are a bunch of other examples though, like snow flakes or some ophiolites.

My guess is that they just needed a polygone to optimize space Squares are lame, and you can't make a tile without gaps with pentagones or octagones...


Btw, I can't remember where the hexagones are in halo. All I can think of are the Jackal's shields.

[Freespace]

They use Hexagons cause Hexagons look awesome! Lots of them in Mass Effect, as well.

[Rake]

Ants are cooler than bees.

[Centipede]

But hornets are the best.

[The_Blade]

The triangle is the stongest polygon
The hexagon is the most area cost effective polygon (It has the same perimeter as a triangle and double the area)


But I'll take that the hexagons look awesome ^^

And you know what's cooler than ants? Colony spiders XD

[sandwich_bird]

Yeah that could be a reference, but why would one exclude the chair conformations when looking for carbon-cycle stability

Because it's freaking ugly!



Imagine a grid made out of these guys Andddd you can't make a sexy sphere(A fullerene) like this



with a chair conformation.

[ArcherofAiur]

Ah good old sp3

[KadajSouba]

Fulleren for the win. It reminds me the Immortals shield...

Hummm.... We are onto something here... Blizzard needs to explain a lot.