Hexagon

Definitions

A polygon with six sides and six angles.

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Examples

“The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design⟳ for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.”

“If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end⟳ up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide⟳ the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall⟳ within it.”

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