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Week 1 Blog Post: Hexagons!!!

After our first class had ended, I could not stop fixating on the hexagonal pattern. During the drawing exercise, my hexagons were distorted in every way possible, no side or interior angle was ever drawn to be the same. It got me thinking about the masters of hexagon production, honey bees. Honeycombs are easily the most recognizable example of hexagons in nature.

Week 1 Blog - Hexagon Structure

From the pencil to the carbon lattice, I found the hexagonal pattern that was shared in class to be very interesting, especially when considering that it is the base of the structure of one of the strongest elements, graphene. This made me wonder both what makes the hexagonal shape such a useful structure and how humans have utilized this shape in new creations

 

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