My obsession with hexagons

[richmond62]

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?

[dunbarx]

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

[richmond62]

They fit and align just fine.

But their centres are not equidistant.

[dunbarx]

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

[richmond62]

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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[richmond62]

The hexagonal images in my example were placed manually.

[dunbarx]

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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[richmond62]

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

[dunbarx]

I will embed in the future.

What about your favorite regular polygon?

Craig