Re: (TFT) Square megahexes Or at least hexes another take

[Lloyd Weber <laweber3@yahoo.com>]

That's great info too. Thanks!

----- Original Message ----
From: Christopher
Fuhrman <fuhrman8or@yahoo.com>
To: tft@brainiac.com
Sent: Saturday, October
21, 2006 3:23:43 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Square megahexes  Or at least hexes
another take

--- Lloyd Weber <laweber3@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I particularly
like the online graph paper site - especially
> because it has
> some
information there about the geometric dimensions of a hex that
> I was not
>
aware of, namely:
> 
> Given length of a side x...         
> Tip to tip
across the hex is
> 2x.         
> Height of the hex flat side to flat side is
2x(sqrt(3/4)) or about
> 1.732x.         
> Area of the hex is 1.5(x^2
(sqrt(3)) or about 2.56x^2.

Here's another site that delves into some of
these dimensional
issues:
http://klein.math.okstate.edu/IndrasPearls/programming/node19.html
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