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I thought so too until I read this https://www.boristhebrave.com/2021/05/23/triangle-grids/ which touched on my biggest gripe with hexagons:
When working with hexes, you quickly realize their edges are a huge pain. They don’t line in a straight line! That makes it impossible to subdivide the grid with a line. You cannot build a big hex out of lots of little ones.
Triangles solve that. Squares also do not have that problem. Triangles work better on the surface of a globe than squares though.
As a finite element method enjoyer, I always regarded triangles as superior because many shapes can be built from them. Triangles are the bestagles?
Man… I was such a fan in the early days. And then they got all into “productivity culture” and… basically stopped producing content. And what they did produce was overproduced and insufferable.
Cortex also used to be very interesting but now it’s just the same things over and over. Hello Internet was fun but I guess Grey optimize out the fun from his endeavours.
Lots of time and effort went into the startup business with the office supply stuff I think. I can’t really blame the man for trying to diversify and make a little side business. I imagine the nerdy young adults in college who watch his videos make up a decent amount of his viewer base. He took a bet that demographic would be into overpriced fancy productivity notebooks, so its a know your audience type thing maybe. I still think his videos are a fun and informative watch.
Yeah, I’ll pop in and watch one sometimes, but I was like, a shirt buying, subscribing, pod-cast listening fan. And I really enjoyed his show with Brady. But it felt like all Gray did was talk about productivity, and like… no content was coming out. Granted this was many, many years ago. It does look like the recipe is still working, but there were times where it would be… months, almost years between pieces of content. Which was at odds with the very early under-produced days. But I found the obviously scripted and overproduction involved the post, the forced-ness of it all very off putting. I would put the demarcation at pre and post “Humans need not apply”, which I still think is probably the best video they’ve done. And that video was 10 years ago.
cgp grey is overrated and so are hexagons.
Hexagons are the tesselation of the densest circle packing, but other than that, they aren’t really exceptional in any way.
There’s a reason we use triangles for structural trusses, and rectangles for everything else. In fact, hexagons mostly just show up as a byproduct of how things are made, which is true for chicken wire as well as honeycomb.
Regularly tesselated planes and platonic solids are mid. Absolutely oougah boogah brain tier topologies which is why engineers love them. Hexagons are just the least mid. Everyone including nature knows fractal geometry is where its at. When we master bioengineering to build our structures you better believe the precious 60/90/120 degree angles for ‘structural stability’ are going in the fucking
trashannals of history in favor of fractal nanostructures forming organic seashell type buildingsHexagons are really not better than triangles.
I kinda do agree with out on fractal geometry though, (although you’re gonna see a lot of tiny triangle shapes). And also for certain applications, things like catenary curves are ideal.
I don’t think 90 degree surfaces are going anywhere though. Having angled walls would be less space efficient, and angled floors would be a safety hazard. And cubes/rectangles are by far the easiest, most compatible shapes to efficiently design with. Although in your hypothetical future I guess we can just use the biocomputer superintelligence to design everything.
i mean, he’s only talking about regular ones. triangles are pretty goated imo, given that they compose pretty much everything and knowing half of their measures lets us knowing the other half
