The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
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?
Yes, this is how I relate to bees.
Bestagons
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
I believe the hexagonal tiling maximizes area while minimizing perimeter, right?
A circle should have the greatest area per perimeter and I can't think of a regular polygon with more sides that tessellates.
Why does it look like a fly?
sssshhhh is bee
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.
Hexagons are the bestagons
Is there any paleontological evidence for insects that made less efficient hives? That would be interesting to look into.
Although I gotta imagine bugs probably figured this stuff out so long ago there might not be much evidence anymore
Haha, good question. I'm going to look at the bee family. I wonder what those fossils would look like...
Bees would be the best goddamn software architects...