polyhex
Sign in to savethumb|A tessellation of all 7 free tetrahexes In recreational mathematics, a polyhex is a polyform with a regular hexagon (or 'hex' for short) as the base form, constructed by joining together 1 or more hexagons. Specific forms are named by their number of hexagons: monohex, dihex, trihex, tetrahex, etc. They were named by David Klarner who investigated them.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Construction rules
- Tessellation properties
- Enumeration
- Symmetry
- Monohexes
- Dihexes
- Trihexes
- Tetrahexes
- Pentahexes
- Hexahexes
- See also
- References
thumb|A tessellation of all 7 free tetrahexes In recreational mathematics, a polyhex is a polyform with a regular hexagon (or 'hex' for short) as the base form, constructed by joining together 1 or more hexagons. Specific forms are named by their number of hexagons: monohex, dihex, trihex, tetrahex, etc. They were named by David Klarner who investigated them.
Each individual polyhex tile and tessellation polyhexes and can be drawn on a regular hexagonal tiling.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “polyhex” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.