LiveCode Forums.

Started when I was aout 16-17 in 1979 . . .

However, LiveCode is not all that good hexagonally . . .
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As it seems quite unable to position hexagons so they are equidistant from each other.

Which, as the inventor of Hexatafl (and so on) is a bit of a problem:
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I wonder if anyone has found a way round this problem?

Richmond.

Not sure what you mean. I have positioned hexagons, closely packed, without issue. They fit and align just fine.

In your picture, they seem to do so as well.

????

Craig

They fit and align just fine.

But their centres are not equidistant.

Richmond.

I made a bunch of stock hexagons and laid them out with their sides overlapping perfectly. I measured the loc of each, and found that the centers were equidistant from each other in both X and Y.

Now there may be an issue with grcs that are one pixel larger, since successive locs might have a slight rounding error. But what are you seeing?

Craig

But what are you seeing?

Well, as it is my last week before I begin teaching again it is the bottom of a beer glass.

Hexagonal, of course:
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The hexagonal images in my example were placed manually.

Hi.

I placed mine manually as well, visually overlapping the edges so they appeared as a single pixel-wide line. These were dragged right from the tool palette. I did not try enlarging each graphic one pixel in each dimension to see if the rounding error actually makes a difference.

But the displacement in X was 176, and the displacement in Y was 102

Craig

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It saves a lot of bother if you embed images directly.

I will embed in the future.

What about your favorite regular polygon?

Craig