Pentagons Are Terrible at One Thing
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended in hexagon-grid threads as a fun but informative overview, and sometimes dropped as a light joke.
What it is
A CGP Grey video about why pentagons are bad at tiling and why hexagons are so special, in his usual playful style. It touches on honeycombs and tiling in nature.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends elihu · 2020-12 · on “Hexagonal Grids (2013)”
CGP Grey did a video about hexagons recently. I mean, there's only so much you can say about hexagons really, but he manages to cover a lot of ground. [this video]
Recommends TameAntelope · 2021-01 · on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”
Hexagons are, after all, the bestagons. On the very very low chance you haven't seen this: [this video] And if you don't know who CGP Grey is and are wondering how this comment fits into HN, I can only offer that he's cashing in on his reputation a bit with the fun tone, but IMO the video is also interesting informationally.
Cites peterburkimsher · 2021-10 · on “Something special is happening in Barcelona”
Good idea! Honeycombs are hexagons, and they tile the plane. And they're made of triangles. [this video] We need parks, not car parks! Rather getting zapped on power lines or pooping on cars, the birds can have branches to sit in and flower beds to fertilise.