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[–] critical@reddthat.com 114 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

They're the hexagreatest!

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hecks a good cookies.

[–] Empricorn 6 points 2 weeks ago

Alright, as long as someone commented it!

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

ONE. That's how many cookies fit on that tray.

If you're feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

The overcooked back half.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that's one nacho.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's so dear of you to assume I have friends. That cookie is all mine, sweetie.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone hexed those cookies

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The toppings are also cursed.

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[–] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago

Sing the song!

🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons

[–] TrackShovel@lemmy.today 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Replace em with bears and you'll get many hexbears hexbear-shining hexbear-chapochat

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I need soft circular bears in my life

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's what all of us really are at hexbear: circle bears. We only developed the hexagonal shape from pushing against each other over time - the result of countless struggle sessions. But at heart, even now we're still just sweet, circular bears once you look beneath the hard hexagonal edges wrought by all the outdoor cats and stacked rocks.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago

Voronoi cookies!

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that depends on the fiction between each item / cell, and the plane.

I think soap bubbles for example will always form hexagons.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bubbles can move freely once created, so they have more freedom than cookies that are stick in place. Thus, bubbles will look for optimal volume to boundary ratio with less constraints

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass out, presumably to protect myself.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it haunt your dreams the same way it haunts mine?

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[–] Hoimo@ani.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?

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[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 weeks ago

me after discovering the voronoi node:

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating as it should

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I've ever seen any household grade ovens really provide even heat, maybe if you use them with the rotating fan thing, but certainly not in standard mode. You need to spend the big bucks on professional kitchen grade stuff for that.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

could also be a shadow?

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But when I do this all the cookies fall out

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I thought that was a shadow 😄

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[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Annnnd now I’m baking cookies

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That pan can fit 21 cookies

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It can clearly fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!

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[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hexagons are a internal function of the universe hex-moon

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Voronoi cookies!

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shame about all the pentagons there.

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