sshalafi lemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesThe do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.187Reply
TThrowaway replylemm.ee1Hide 1 replyAnd thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.73Reply
Routhinator replystartrek.websiteThere are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.2Reply
mmtchristo lemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesYou mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What's their problem with right angles.8Reply
cchitak166 lemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesInteresting. I haven't really connected hexagons and circles like this.5Reply
MMagnetar replyfeddit.de2Hide 2 repliesIt's a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres4Reply
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The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
Hexagons are the bestagons
I'm very happy this has caught on.
though his how to solve traffic video is abysmal
Ah yes, bestagons
Yes. Hexagons are the bestagons
The hexagreatest
That's... thats a fly, with stripes for some reason.
Tiger fly
There are a lot of bees that look like flies. Check out mason bees.
Shove the babies in them! And barf on them!
Obsessive Compulsive Beesorder?
Bugs love science, simple as
Boy that’s One Committed Bee!
You mean they skipped 4. Pointed polygons and chosen a hexagon instead. What's their problem with right angles.
C'mon man, don't be a square.
Less volume per unit of surface area
Interesting. I haven't really connected hexagons and circles like this.
It's a whole thing in mathematics, in two or three dimensions, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres
Fascinating.
Indeed.
Bees would be the best goddamn software architects...