Hexagons are bestagons, but are much harder to fabricate.
Nah bees do it by making circles that melt into each other, easy enough.
e621 user spotted.
I’m not aware of what that is. I got the phrase from the CGP Grey video, “Circles Waste Space. Hexagons don’t.”
Ugh, just a reminder of the cynical bucket of slop that channel became
That video is actually called “Hexagons are the Bestagons” but over the last few years he’s started changing all his video titles and thumbnails a million times to squeeze extra ad revenue from them without having to make new stuff
in hindsight it’s unfortunately not that surprising, i think it was the self-driving car stuff that made me realize he kinda cares more about cool tech than about actual practical things…
User self reporting. What gave them away?
Ok, but also Round Rects
That’s actually a really neat story. I question the authenticity, but it’s neat.
Does sound pretty fake. Doesn’t really read like an actual Steve Jobs story.
Yeah, not nearly enough spousal and child abuse or screwing over the other founding members until The Great Woz comes in later to pay from his own shares.
Rectangles and squares feel uniquely human. Not many other things in nature make these shapes
And then pyrite does this somehow.
I’ve got an example like that on my desk specifically so I can stare at it when someone says right angles don’t occur in nature
Bismuth too, and…I wanna say it’s galena.
It’s just the fact, that they are rather easy to make, since you just need to draw a line between two points and continue from there. Humans are attached to that. It helps to dis- and reassemble the world in a simple methodical way. The eye can more easily align itself with lines. Why? In fact lines are very unnatural and disturbing for us. That’s how we got to make use of them. Imagine the street and houses around you were based on fractals. You’d possibly turn crazy and disoriented in no time, trying to make sense of everything. By the way, fuck cubism and Picasso in particular!
Rectangles fake, fractals real
what a square
Every rectangle you see is two triangles. There are at least twice as many triangles you see than rectangles.
Cats like rectangles too, hence we like cats.
So much non-euclidian geometry is driving us all insane. Damn you curvature of the earth, damn you.
It could be worse. We could have circular screens instead of rectangles, right now.
Horror? Wtf?