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[–] critical@reddthat.com 113 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

They're the hexagreatest!

Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Alright, as long as someone commented it!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Hecks a good cookies.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The overcooked back half.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone hexed those cookies

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

The toppings are also cursed.

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[–] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Sing the song!

🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons

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

This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.

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

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

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

I need soft circular bears in my life

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Voronoi cookies!

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

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago

me after discovering the voronoi node:

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

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

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

[–] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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

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

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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But when I do this all the cookies fall out

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

I think asking which axis would be the question

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I thought that was a shadow 😄

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago
[–] Beebabe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Annnnd now I’m baking cookies

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Voronoi cookies!

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

That pan can fit 21 cookies

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

It can clearly fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!

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[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hexagons are a internal function of the universe hex-moon

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