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Nature has many examples of six-sidded structures. Honeybees and other insect
make six-sided cells which conserves material and builds a rigid interlocking
storage compartment; mud and permafrost tends to crack along a hexagon shape
so says a geologost friend, and snowflakes are supposedly six sided. The
mathematics of six sides is special in nature. In closeup photography of a
honeybee's eye the individual retinal cells are six-sided. Apparently tiling a surface
is made easier with six-sided cells.
I give many presentations each year on honeybees and I am looking for more
good examples of six-sidedness, especial with regard to honeybees, but in all of
nature in general. Do you have any more examples to add to my list of the
special uses of six-sidedness?
Rick Green
8 Hickory Grove Lane
Ballston Lake, NY 12019
(518) 384-2539
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