#hexagon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hexagon, aggregated by home.social.
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Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy’s Rectifier Globe computer graphics?
I was watching the TRON: Legacy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray remaster (only my second time watching the 4K remaster) in the background earlier today when I sensed something “off” in the land mass tiling of the rotating globe graphic.
I paused the video and after less than a minute of scrutinizing the dark globe with orange outlined hexagon tiling, spotted a single pentagon (among the hexagons) inside the 2d projections of the American continents. See if you can spot it.
After writing the first draft of this post, I double-checked the graphic and found one more pentagon!
Credit: Image from https://ilikeinterfaces.com/2015/03/24/map-ui-tron-legacy/, fair use from Walt Disney, Inc.
The first pentagon I spotted is in the northwest quadrant of South America, and clearly visible at time index 1:38:03. The second pentagon is near Alaska. Now I can't unsee either. How did only two pentagons make it in there? Seems unlikely to be an accident or rendering bug. The only thing I can think of is the designer/artist(s) that created the graphic animation placed the two pentagons deliberately. But why?
GMUNK Studio’s post about the Rectifier Globe (https://gmunk.com/TRON-Rectifier-Globe) doesn’t mention the pentagons.
Yes, I know the math/geometry about how you can’t tile a sphere with only hexagons, that several pentagons are necessary at various points on a sphere to stitch together the hexagons. This is just two small pentagons, not several, and the Rectifier Globe only has/uses hex-tiling for the land masses, not the entire sphere. Nor is the hex-tiling “perfect” by any measure. The hexagonal edges of the continents don’t match-up with hex-tiling much (most?) of the way around the coasts of the continents either, so it can’t have been to fix that.
Are those two pentagons merely imperfections (necessary or accidental)? Or an Easter-egg or secret reference of sorts from the graphic artist(s)?
I searched the web and could not find any answers or even mentions of these two pentagons in this graphic. Did anyone notice them previously?
#TRON #TRONLegacy #pentagon #pentagons #hex #hexagon #hexagons #hexTile #hexTiles #hexTiled #Rectifier #RectifierGlobe #globe #computerGraphic #computerGraphics #math #maths #geometry #sphere #tile #tiled #tiling
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#QuizOfTheDay: In #Geometry, a #Hexagon is a six-sided polygon.
What is the Sum of the Interior #Angles (in degrees) in a Hexagon?
A. 180
B. 360
C. 540
D. 720https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=649bd9c748adb3c45e3a151d
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A recursive tiling for #TilingTuesday
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made a #design from #hexagons in #b3d #blender3D
this time not with motion in mind but sooner or later a spraycan and a wall :)
maybe I should put up the version on the wall that is 30 degrees rotated and very unbalanced just because...
since this is the 3d sketch for a painting it might as well fit for #wipWednesday -
Today i turned a map into a hexagonal dipyramid.... It's held together by hope and a deep breath mostly, but I'm hoping the result will be good.
For an exhibition about architecture and landscape.
#origami #cyanotype #blueprint #hexagon #hexagonalDipyramid #mapstodon
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Hexagon has introduced a subscription model for its Geomagic Freeform 2026 design software, significantly lowering the entry cost. New workflow tools including RTSTRUCT for medical imaging and HSCAN for 3D scanning are also included, expanding access to advanced 3D design capabilities. https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/hexagon-cuts-geomagic-freeform-entry-cost-with-subscription-model-and-new-workflow-tools-250222/ #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Software #Hexagon
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@vaviurka scored a small Civ5 map made from thick cast aluminium.
Apparently it can also be used to make Koldunai. If you're confused now, look at the pictures here to see how that works: https://www.lamaistas.lt/straipsnis/naminiai-koldunai-per-pusvalandi-parodysime-kaip-44728
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Handarbeit zum Runterkommen in der Krankenhaus-Edition.
#EPP #quilt #quilten #slowStitching #nähen #sewing #hexagon #patchwork #krankenhaus
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#KnowledgeBit: #Saturn's #Hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal #Cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78°N. It rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior.
Saturn's hexagon was discovered during the #Voyager mission in 1981.
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tinyCore Board Teaches Core Microcontroller Concepts https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/tinycore-board-teaches-core-microcontroller-concepts/ #Microcontrollers #education #hexagon #how-to #ESP32 #qwiic
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#1girl #absurdres #bare_shoulders #big_photo #blue_eyes #breasts #candy #character_name #chinese_commentary #cleavage #commentary #dress #eyelashes #food #hair_between_eyes #halterneck #headphones #hexagon #highres #holding #holding_candy #holding_food #holding_lollipop #indoors #interface_headset_(evangelion) #lips #lollipop #looking_ahead #looking_away #medium_breasts #neon_genesis_evangelion #orange_hair #portrait #rain #reflection #romaji_text #souryuu_asuka_langley #sundress #two_side_up #water_drop #window https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4969049
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For the twenty fifth #30MapsInAMonth are a series of four maps showing @WorldPopProject 1km² population data aggregated into a hierarchical set of scaled hexagons.
1/n
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Which is the best shape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
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Organic farm with a large house in #Cordillera Central 🐄
A house of #hexagon shape with an inner #garden and a big #pond full of #koi carps 🎏 in the middle, inspired by Asian #philosophy, built in 2022, comes with a land of 9.4 hectares.
More than 300 #fruit trees and bushes - #banana, #mango, #orange, #lemon, #cacao 🍌
613.500 €
Rooms: 11
Living space: 351m²
Plot: 94.000m²
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HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike
https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
#ycombinator #rogue #roguelike #7DRL #hyperbolic_geometry #hyperbolic_plane #hyperbolic_geometry_game #hexagon #heptagon #hyperbolic_tesselation #opensource #hyperrogue -
HyperRogue, the non-Euclidean roguelike
https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
#ycombinator #rogue #roguelike #7DRL #hyperbolic_geometry #hyperbolic_plane #hyperbolic_geometry_game #hexagon #heptagon #hyperbolic_tesselation #opensource #hyperrogue -
HyperRogue, the non-Euclidean roguelike, is a mind-melting masterpiece
https://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
#ycombinator #rogue #roguelike #7DRL #hyperbolic_geometry #hyperbolic_plane #hyperbolic_geometry_game #hexagon #heptagon #hyperbolic_tesselation #opensource #hyperrogue -
Hexagon of Doom - The Cost of Over-Abstraction and Indirection
Let me explain why I think Ports&Adapter / Hexagonal architecture introduces net harm to software projects.
https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/development/hexagon-of-doom/index.html
#software #engineering #architecture #dev #project #cleancode #java #scala #hexagon #mvc #ports #adapters #abstraction #programming
