The Amazing Hexagon or How I'm Gettin' My Math On

July 15, 2010 · 1 comment

Dude! Who knew 6 sides could be so creative! Look at these amazing {and some a little creepy} Hexagon examples. What an EdGyKashun I am giving you! Now go out there and get Hexie Wit it! { make sure you watch the video at the bottom }

Hexagons: natural and human-made

  • A beehive honeycomb
  • The scutes of a turtle’s carapace.
  • North polar hexagonal cloud feature on Saturn, discovered by Voyager 1 and confirmed in 2006 by Cassini.
  • Micrograph of a snowflake.
  • Crystal structure of a molecular hexagon composed of hexagonal aromatic rings reported by Müllen and coworkers in Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 1834-1839.
  • Naturally formed basalt columns from Giant’s Causeway in Ireland.
  • An aerial view of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park.
  • The James Webb Space Telescope mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal segments.
  • Metropolitan France has a vaguely hexagonal shape
  • Flower of life

    Flower of Life

  • Metatron cube
  • Platonic solid
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    avatar 1 Meghan July 15, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Wow! A hexagon on saturn?! I had no idea!

    That flower of life would make a great quilting motif…

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