 MrHarold  | 14 Jan 2014 8:39 a.m. PST |
Hi everyone, I picked up a bag of 100 1" hex bases from Warsenal:
I was thinking about gluing them down to a 2x2 foot pink foam board, and then… I don't know. Maybe make it look like an old city overrun with dirt and vegetation? Any ideas? |
Dervel  | 14 Jan 2014 8:46 a.m. PST |
or glue them to half a foam sphere and make dome colony building? |
| Maddaz111 | 14 Jan 2014 8:52 a.m. PST |
Make an inside of a tardis model, by gluing little bubbles to the centre or them? |
| MrHarold | 14 Jan 2014 9:01 a.m. PST |
Cool idea with the dome colony building! |
| taskforce58 | 14 Jan 2014 9:02 a.m. PST |
Columnar basalt formations are hexagonal in cross-section. You can stack your hexes in various heights to simulate this.
Do a google search on "columnar basalt" for more information. |
| MrHarold | 14 Jan 2014 9:09 a.m. PST |
ohhhhh…. another great idea! |
| elsyrsyn | 14 Jan 2014 9:16 a.m. PST |
or glue them to half a foam sphere and make dome colony building? I think you'd also need pentagons for that to work. I'd keep 'em for bases, and/or perhaps use them to make a hexboard gladiatorial arena. Doug |
| Dervel | 14 Jan 2014 9:32 a.m. PST |
Triangles to maximize interior space, but the basic shape is still a hexagon… link |
| Cacique Caribe | 14 Jan 2014 9:45 a.m. PST |
Harold, 100??? Man, I wish I had a few of those to experiment with this idea … I would make a bunch of 1" tall tube-like containers or small hab units, with a hex at each end*. Use card or cardstock to wrap around the tube, with styrene accents. Length could be done around 2" or 2.5". Dan
* And perhaps one halfway in the middle, for added support and to maintain shape. |
| MrHarold | 14 Jan 2014 10:12 a.m. PST |
100 for $11.00 USD  link And that is a good idea to make a bunch of containers out of them. |
| Cacique Caribe | 14 Jan 2014 10:36 a.m. PST |
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| elsyrsyn | 14 Jan 2014 11:43 a.m. PST |
Triangles to maximize interior space, but the basic shape is still a hexagon… Not really. In that pic, there's a pentagonal arrangement of 5 triangles front and center (down low). If you have triangles, you can of course make a geodesic dome by arranging them into pentagons and hexagons, but I do not believe you can do it solely with hexagons. At the center of each ring of hexagons is a pentagon, although the pentagon may be surrounded by multiple concentric rings of hexagons. Doug |
| taskforce58 | 14 Jan 2014 12:11 p.m. PST |
Mathematically those shapes outlined in Dervel's picture cannot be a perfect hexagon on a single plane, with all 6 sides are exactly the same length and all 6 interior angles equal to 120 degrees. Furthermore in the picture all 6 points in each of the "hexagons" outlined most likely don't lie in the same mathematical plane, i.e. it is a slightly "folded" hexagonal shape. Using the Harold's hex tiles – which are practically perfect hexagons – it is not possible to form a sphere or any 3D shape without a large amount of cutting/sanding. BTW Dervel there is a pentagon in that picture – just to the bottom left of the blue hexagon you outlined. |
| Dervel | 14 Jan 2014 12:15 p.m. PST |
Yup, forgot about the pentagons…. you would need several to create the curve.. Doh Still like the idea of a big SciFi structure, but you need a couple of custom pentagons. |
| Cacique Caribe | 14 Jan 2014 12:52 p.m. PST |
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| taskforce58 | 14 Jan 2014 1:05 p.m. PST |
With perfect flat hexagons you can combine them with pentagons of equal side length to form a Truncated Icosahedron:
Note how it features segments with five hexagons joining, and the gap in the middle becomes a pentagon. link |
| MrHarold | 14 Jan 2014 1:39 p.m. PST |
I'll just rotate it using:
Fib(n) = Phin – ((–1)n Phi)/sqrt5
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| Mako11 | 14 Jan 2014 5:40 p.m. PST |
Build a Moonbase of course, but you'll need some pentagons too, for that. |
