Hexagons emerge wherever nature needs to divide space efficiently.
- Hexagons emerge wherever nature needs to divide space efficiently.
- Six is the sweet spot between minimizing boundaries and maximizing stability.
- Six neighbors leads to optimal packing.
- Circles touching, cells dividing, vortices arranging.
- Straight edges form along equilibrium lines between six points.
- Think of voroni diagrams.
- Even though the wavefront emerges as a circle, as it runs into other wavefronts it becomes, surprisingly, a line.
- It's the lowest-energy configuration, since deviations cost more.
- Works in any medium: wax, rock, or Saturn's winds.