| 单词 | hexagon |
| 例句 | I’m about to crawl into my cell when a body with long black hair sits up inside my hexagon. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When I return to my room the pods are gone and replaced with a beehive of backlit hexagon cells, just like all the Collective’s quarters. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There is a table in the shape of a hexagon. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z If I look at them long enough, I can see all kinds of patterns in those hexagons: lines, arrows, even flowers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He could no longer recall what the sky looked like through hexagons of cage wire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the bathroom, I stared at the white tile hexagons on the floor and saw nothing but the crud in between them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A strand of plastic gold beads shaped like hexagons. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Rooms which should contain other passengers in stasis, instead hold walls of hexagon bed tubes puzzled together like a honeycomb. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Its wick emitted a gentle hiss and soft yellow light as a tiny petal of flame danced inside its glass hexagon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We started with the 50s wing of dorms and made our way backward around the hexagon—she pushed open the back windows while I looked out and made sure no one was walking by. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There are three rows of chairs on built-in platforms that edge around the sides of the classroom in a split hexagon shape. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My brain sorted the hexagons into the usual shapes and flowers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Shaped like circles, diamonds, hexagons, and interlocking rectangles, the earthworks are three to nine hundred feet in diameter and outlined by trenches up to twenty feet deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And about how the only shapes that one can use to tile a floor, if all the tiles are the same, are triangles, squares and hexagons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Marcus stared at the floor, which I’d just noticed was tiled with tiny white hexagons like the ones in our bathroom at home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z On one side, there was a hexagon with a line coming off one end. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bees know enough geometry to make row after row of perfect hexagons, angles so accurate you’d think they used rulers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her the way they created hexagons, they must be the ones who could do math in their heads, and she smiled and said, yes, nest builders had true math aptitude. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Geometric patterns, including Greek key, modern hexagon, art deco arches or a simple chevron, work well with busy landscape and floral motifs, because their structure offsets the fluidity of those designs. How to incorporate 7 popular patterns in your home, according to experts 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The plywood booth, in the shape of a hexagon, has black-and-white Jesus imagery on the outside and a padded, soundproofed room on the inside. Google Cultural Institute database wants to give street art permanence 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The first work, a triptych of canvas hexagons from before the breakthrough, uses discreet drips and a few visible brushstrokes to bring a little movement into what is otherwise some pretty static geometry. Independent 20th Century’s Artists in a Cozy New Fair Spinoff 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Inside, the hexagons continue, forming a faceted and mirrored ceiling to the foyer. Harpa concert hall 2011-08-27T23:05:00Z Wooden tables rest atop tiny hexagon tiles, and antique fencing enjoys new life as rafters. All-Purpose review: The neighborhood restaurant of your dreams 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The hexagons were talismans of order and plenty. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Another bag, the Lucia, $348, converts into a hexagon by means of a zippered panel at each corner, and there is a classic carryall tote in coated canvas, $248, painted with a stylized horse. Front Row: Jonathan Adler Expands Into Accessories 2013-08-14T23:38:54Z Once again, you’ll do that work one addicting turn at a time across a map divided into hexagons. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z On the menu, the size of the hexagon before a group of dishes indicates whether they’re snacks, medium plates or platters. Review | A young chef goes for the buzz at Bresca 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z They manage to dig a perfect hexagon around the biggest undiscovered behemoth of all. ‘Sam and Dave Dig a Hole’ adds a twist to a childhood pastime Those battles were waged with armies of cardboard squares, which you pushed around on a map board of hexagons. ‘Of Dice and Men’: the lure of Dungeons & Dragons 2013-08-22T21:09:02Z It’s fascinating how bees know to make it in these symmetrical, hexagon shapes that are luminous and beautiful. An 8,000-Pound Tribute to the Power of the Beehive 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z For “Buckyball,” Mr. Villareal applied concepts of geometry and mathematical relationships inspired by Fuller to produce two nested geodesic sculptural spheres made up of LED tubes arranged in pentagons and hexagons. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z The roughly 15-foot-square mosaic features a bust of the fabled minstrel Orpheus in the center, framed and bordered by hexagons containing a variety of spellbound animals. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The hexagons of honeycomb, as drawn by Arsenault, seem so perfect as to be fanciful precisely when they are fact. Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z At some point early in the pandemic, I began to dream in hexagons. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z For the research center, computers programmed for energy conservation did the same, distorting the hexagons, a rational process producing woozy but climate-efficient forms. Zaha Hadid’s Desert Think Tank: Environmental Beauty and Efficiency 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Using a sliding table saw, the sheets are cut into squares, hexagons and other shapes. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard It’s Full Steam Ahead 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “The hexagon is the softest form,” she said. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z From itty-bitty hexagons to miniature squares, tiny tiles are back in a big way. Tiny tiles are back in a big way 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z A series of hazy but elaborate diagrams and drawings, some on a truncated hexagon shape that he thought would promote the land’s fertility, are dreamily enrapturing. The Don’t-Misses at Independent and NADA 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He experimented with irregular frames instead of rectangles, using pentagons, hexagons, tondos and asymmetrical lozenge-shaped canvases arranged on the wall in little archipelagoes. Review | Lucio Fontana slashed his canvases with a knife. Was it a gimmick or something more? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Slim offered a preview Tuesday of the towering structure, which is dramatically angled and covered with 16,000 aluminum hexagons. Mexico's Slim unveils new art museum in capital 2011-03-01T22:38:11Z “In particular, hexagons are experiencing a kind of rebirth.” Trend spotting at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Geometrics — including circles, triangles, cones, cubes and hexagons — add visual interest and a modern touch. This ’80s decorating style is making a comeback 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Complex variations on the hexagon were her favorites. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The hexagonal shapes that Jonah noticed in Tunisian tiling and architecture inspired the hexagon of light that anchors the stage. Jonah Bokaer at World Nomads: Tunisia 2013-05-08T21:40:32Z Part of the allure is that the board, made up of hexagons, is randomly rearranged every game. The Glorious and Barbarous Bartering of Settlers of Catan 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The other pieces are all wall-mounted hexagons, one in translucent glass and other two with white-on-blue patterns that mirror the main attraction. In the galleries: Tales from the dark side — of Canada 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The surface of the cake reinforces its name, with the hexagon pattern of a honeycomb. Review | This new Azerbaijani bakery offers stories as good as its pastries 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Palmer recommends using the kit for a wardrobe revamp: adding hexagons to faded jeans, for instance, or tinting a favorite white button-down shirt that's lost its luster. T Magazine: To Dye For 2012-11-29T21:22:16Z Those hexagons were conceived to be good neighbors — letting sunlight more easily reach the adjacent mid-rise buildings on the estate. New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Turing's theory alone would not be able to explain the sharp outlines of these hexagons, he thought. How animals get their stripes and spots 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons. A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Anyone who stumbles upon a bee or wasp nest in nature will be greeted by rows and rows of dozens of tiny symmetrical hexagons. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z These patterns feature repetitive geometric shapes such as squares, triangles, circles, and hexagons arranged in symmetrical compositions. Exploring the rich history of Indian block printing 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z In 1975 he conjectured that the optimal packing of n circles is an arrangement in a triangular lattice that forms the shape of a hexagon that is as regular as possible. Gift Wrapping Five Oranges Has Outwitted the Best Minds in Mathematics for Generations 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. How animals get their stripes and spots 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z However, the upper right side of the hexagon has a large, protruding knob. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet for some species, the hexagon comes with a nasty catch: It isn't one-size-fits-all. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z “It’s sitting right in the hexagons,” she said. Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z We’re the Target generation — the shiny, red place with a gay pride aisle, hipster lamps, hexagons and espresso pods. Perspective | Walmart’s breakup with H Street hurts. Yet again, it’s not us. It’s you. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The landscape is flat, but for 1-inch-raised hexagons of salt crystals formed by cycles of flooding and evaporation. AP PHOTOS: Wonder, worry collide at Utah’s famed salt flats 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The hexagon lights are easy to assemble and attach to your wall in any configuration you want. 15 helpful tech gifts that you won't find at the Apple Store 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Consequently hexagons of various different sizes need to be built, and yet still fit neatly within the overall nest. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The predominantly blue logo is shaped like a hexagon and is meant to look like information is coming in through a prism and being reflected out as knowledge in four colored triangles. Library commission OKs new logo with minor color changes 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Yet a rare form of diamond known as lonsdaleite—a crystal with carbon atoms arranged in flexing three-dimensional hexagons—may be even harder than its cubic cousin. Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Water molecules have a particular bent shape that causes them to stack into clusters shaped like hexagons as they freeze. Why does nature create patterns? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z This telescope will have a mirror 6 meters in diameter, made up, like the Keck telescopes, of 36 small hexagons. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z "To find that all of them fall on the same continuum when merging different sizes of hexagons together is really cool." Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But he also employed white pigment, and one of these pictures is merely an hourglass-like hexagon, rendered in textured, milky paint on off-white linen. Review | In the galleries: Old-time technology with a contemporary twist 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Graphite is made up of flat layers of carbon atoms bonded together as hexagons. Extra Hard Space Diamonds May Have Formed in an Ancient Cosmic Collision 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The hardware itself is also cheaper and simpler than a typical planetary science mission—Nova-C is a slender five-footed hexagon about the size of a British telephone booth. A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The six sides of the hexagon are each longer than the diameter of Earth. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z These come in two "dimorphic" sizes, "small worker cells and large reproductive cells, which forces the builders to join differently sized hexagons," the authors explain. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The primary mirror shape creates a six-pointed diffraction pattern for sufficiently bright sources: each “spike” in this pattern stretches toward one of the points of a hexagon. Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z All of Nanoleaf’s Shapes line, which features hexagons, triangles, and mini-triangles, are modular panels that can be pieced together to design different geometric patterns on your wall or ceiling. Nanoleaf adds black triangles to its smart lighting line 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The hexagon labelled “main earthquake” represents the first or main shock. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Collectible Avatars will have a “glow-like effect” in comments sections, adding a visual flourish similar to the hexagon Twitter uses to identify NFT avatars. Reddit will sell "Collectible Avatars," and yes — they’re NFTs 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z This discovery is significant because bees and wasps do not share any ancestors that built hexagons. Hexagon heaven: Scientists reveal bees and wasps use the same math to build their nests 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The resulting lattice consisted of hexagons—we call it the “heavy hex” layout—and looks like the Settlers of Catan game board rather than a chessboard. How to Fix Quantum Computing Bugs 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z But when tiny samples of iron are compressed between two diamonds to inner core–like pressures, the atoms rearrange into hexagons. Scientists are probing the secrets of Earth’s inner core—and how it saved life on our planet 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z After much trial and error and making dozens of different prototypes, they found hexagon shaped holes worked best. Students design anti-soggy chips and pizza baking tray 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Twitter displays the NFT profile pictures as hexagons, differentiating them from the standard circles available to other users. Twitter debuts hexagon-shaped NFT profile pictures 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Then on Wednesday, the telescope unfurled its secondary mirror, which points at the 18 hexagons, reflecting what the telescope saw back to its sensors. A Giant Telescope Grows in Space 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z The new code, called the heavy hexagon code, combined features of the surface code and of another lattice-based code called the Bacon-Shor code. How to Fix Quantum Computing Bugs 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Finally, 18 gold-plated beryllium hexagons will snap into place to form a segmented mirror 6.5 meters, or 21 feet, across. Webb Telescope Prepares to Ascend, With an Eye Toward Our Origins 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Next came hexagons, and now, say hello to lines. Nanoleaf’s new Lines are strips of smart lights for your walls 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z They join the two types of sections with rows of hexagons that gradually increase in size, the team found. Clever carpentry helps bees fix wild honeycombs 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The logo is a nod to the field and glasses are imprinted with the hexagon shapes found on soccer balls. You know Fredy Montero the Sounders legend and all-time leading scorer. Here’s his story off the pitch. 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z It is just as easy to do so using equilateral triangles or hexagons. For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The rainbow colors in the club level seating area are back, signs are shaped in the classic hexagons of the Dodger Stadium scoreboards, and a Tommy Lasorda-inspired lounge evokes the decades before disco. On Baseball: Dodger Stadium renovations are latest masterpiece designed by Janet Marie Smith 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z When temperatures are just below freezing, the snowflakes are generally simple hexagon plates. Snowflakes as You’ve Never Seen Them Before 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The flower’s petals are 18 gold-plated beryllium hexagons joined to form a dish more than 20 feet across. The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Honeycomb also takes the shape of a hexagon. WandaVision episode 4: Ready, A.I.M., theorize 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z These are Recompose’s 10 “vessels,” each a hexagon enclosing a steel cylinder full of soil. Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S., is now open for business 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z "The footballs are a funny one. The bit they like is the black hexagons on the outside of the red football," he said. Bend It Like Peck-ham: Chickens play football in bird flu lockdown 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z At these temperatures, the points of the hexagon grow into branches. Snowflakes as You’ve Never Seen Them Before 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Players take turns marking empty hexagons with their dots. Sharpen a Pencil and Challenge an Opponent 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Then the fourth episode 3D renders Wanda’s fake town, which is in the shape of a hexagon. WandaVision episode 4: Ready, A.I.M., theorize 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z These fun hexagon tiles are flexible game components that allow for a variety of games and play styles. Playing the Paper 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The films often form a visible triangle or hexagon, according to the geometric structures of the crystals in each material. The superpowers of super-thin materials 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Your task is to build a chain of hexagons that stretch from the bottom of the grid upward to a “milestone.” Review | ‘Mosaic’: Terrible days at work, one after another The entire thing looks very Alienware-y, too, with white plastic, hexagon accents, and sharp angles everywhere. Alienware’s Concept UFO prototype imagines a gaming PC that’s shaped like a Nintendo Switch 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Not to mention that Jimmy Woo basically writes down on his giant whiteboard of clues “what’s going on with these hexagons?” WandaVision episode 4: Ready, A.I.M., theorize 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z On your turn, you must move one of your pieces forward one hexagon. Playing the Paper 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The company is also announcing a release date for the interconnecting hexagon light panels first announced last year at CES. Nanoleaf’s smart lighting system learns, senses, and reacts to needs 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Carbon nanotubes are rolled up sheets of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon pattern. Biggest carbon-nanotube chip yet says ‘Hello, World!’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “We are so excited about this,” Principal Tammy Farrens said as she watched the bees work inside the hexagon shapes comprising the honeycombs. Honeybees living in glass bee box are new ‘classmates’ 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The city would grow in a fractal pattern: Six linked platforms, like a hexagon of a honeycomb, would become a village. As seas rise, the U.N. explores a bold plan: Floating cities 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z His only restriction is his fascination for hexagons. Joy of six: the buildings transformed by 3D hexagon murals 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Those Gillette ads are nice, but get this: The company's founder wanted to build a socialist utopian city of tessellating hexagons on Niagara Falls where money would "pass into the oblivion of an ignorant age." How Gillette's founder dreamed of a car-free, moneyless metropolis 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z For instance, you “might do one wall of a walk-in shower in a particular shape, like hexagons,” said Jamie Chappell, creative director of the San Francisco company Fireclay Tile. How to tile a bathroom yourself — from design to grout | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Composed of hundreds of interlocking metallic hexagons like the one she has just installed, the disk is a colossal mirror 30 meters wide, the starlight-gathering eye of the largest space telescope ever built. Finding Alien Life May Require Giant Telescopes Built in Orbit 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Construction costs would stay low, he said, because the floating hexagons can be mass-produced in factories and towed to destination bays. As seas rise, the U.N. explores a bold plan: Floating cities 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “My walls are more the playground version of that study of the hexagon form,” he says. Joy of six: the buildings transformed by 3D hexagon murals 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z In the end, the mounds look like a patchwork of hexagons, maximizing the distance between every mound. How Termites Shape the Natural World 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In reality, some hexagons are big, others are small, and many overlap. Google’s AI program DeepMind learns human navigation skills 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The third image, however, revealed a pattern nobody had ever reported seeing: Dark gray lines swirling into the center of closely packed hexagons with smaller, black hexagonal dots studded across them. Core Strength: Extreme "Close Ups" May Help Explain Why Our Bones Are So Strong 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z A hexagon internally cut up into pie sections could visually flip into an illusionistic projection of a cube, like something by Larry Bell, its internal ridges rippling outward like a pebble dropped in a pond. Tony DeLap's hybrids of painting and sculpture are impossible objects 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s repeating hexagons of these ball-like carbon atoms that extend on in atomic scales for great distances. Behind the hype: experts explain the science behind graphene, the new supermaterial 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Composed of 18 gold-coated hexagons forged from featherweight beryllium, the mirror is taller than a four-story building, and once launched will be the largest ever flown in space. Is the James Webb Space Telescope "Too Big to Fail?" 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The snowflake’s radial symmetry is inherited from the hexagon grid on which it grows. In Silico Flurries 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Does viewing hexagons subconsciously promote quick, easy elimination? Bathroom, Mathroom 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Did you draw a benzene ring as a hexagon that contained a circle, to represent its delocalized clouds of electrons? Chemists get faster on the draw But in a YouTube campaign video, Mr Parker explains why that wouldn't work, even if the hexagons were somewhat distorted. New signing? Fan kicks off over football 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s been transformed into a skeletal formula, a series of hexagons with single and double bond lines between them, commonly used to represent carbon and hydrogen atoms in organic chemistry. Google’s new Doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of Indian chemist Asima Chatterjee 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z A high-resolution color view of the hexagon, as seen from Cassini. Giant storms, methane lakes, and hidden oceans: Cassini’s best discoveries of Saturn and its moons 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z This video, made of eight frames taken in 2012, is the highest-resolution view of the six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole, known as “the hexagon.” Before NASA's Cassini flies into Saturn, take a look back at its best images 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Confined by winds flowing at more than 300 kilometres an hour, the hexagon is home to smaller hurricane-like vortices that rotate within it. Cassini’s 13 years of stunning Saturn science — in pictures 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The pattern of white and dark hexagons is stipulated in UK law as the image for a football ground. New signing? Fan kicks off over football 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The result is a hexagon made “from a few very simple instincts”. Evolution: Darwin's domestic discoveries : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The probe finally saw what was at the center of the hexagon: a hurricane very much similar to the Earth’s, but with an eye about 50 times wider than your average storm. Giant storms, methane lakes, and hidden oceans: Cassini’s best discoveries of Saturn and its moons 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Keller won with a design that features a pattern of hexagons along with tools including a 3-D printer, a drawing tablet and a robot arm. Virginia student’s design featured on shoes 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z They then used a slight but sophisticated adjustment to map these points to the centres of hexagons; the resulting hexagonal array becomes a flattened 'tiling pattern', in which each tile represents one scale. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z On the left here is how you slice a cube in half such that the cross section is a hexagon. Can you solve it? The incredible sponge puzzle 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z With its instruments toward Saturn, Cassini will capture images and data about the giant hurricanes on the planet’s north and south poles, and the massive and enigmatic hexagon at its northmost reaches. Nasa's Cassini spacecraft to end 20-year Saturn mission by self-destructing 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z ATP is represented as a red circle, ADP as a brown circle and substrate as an orange hexagon. Energy transduction and alternating access of the mammalian ABC transporter P-glycoprotein : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The spacecraft's first fly-by found that Jupiter’s north pole lacks the mysterious hexagon of swirling clouds that dominate Saturn's north pole. Jupiter mission's computer glitch delays data-gathering 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The site FiveThirtyEight used hexagons to create a similar map, while the Wall Street Journal also takes a block approach. This Map Shows Who Would Win the Election If It Were Held Today 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Notably absent are the characteristic cloudy bands that snake their way around the planet at lower latitudes, as well as any geometrically shaped storms, like the hexagon on Saturn’s north pole. Behold, This Is Our First Picture of Jupiter’s North Pole Instead, I spent time floating through a prehistoric sea and faux-hacking through hexagons. Using VR to escape Pokémon Go 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z ATP is represented as a red circle, ADP as a brown circle and substrate as an orange hexagon. Energy transduction and alternating access of the mammalian ABC transporter P-glycoprotein : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z On the sole, a combination of 39 hexagon- and 24 chevron-shaped lugs aim to provide traction both on the course and on smooth surfaces off the course. Puma Debuts DeChambeau's Preferred Shoe - Golf Digest 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “I made the hexagons for the first time there, a fifty-foot wall, twelve feet up,” he told me. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z All you do is tap a hexagon and raise or lower the temperature in your wonderful home. Do you want these patent-pending hexagons to control your home? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In the next few days, the last two of 18 hexagons will be lowered into position for secure attachment. James Webb: Hubble successor maintains course - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z It is named the "Hexagone-Balard" — the hexagon being the shape used to describe France's mainland, and also the shape of the heart of the building. France's army chiefs move into new 'Pentagon,' high-security base ready for today's threats 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z In maps, points are often clustered into larger shapes—bubbles, squares, hexagons—that are colored or sized by the total value of the points contained. Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy to Efficiency 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “The children and I filled the hexagons with rocks, like a drystone wall.” Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Imagine this York Touchscreen Thermostat with patent-pending hexagon interface in your home. Do you want these patent-pending hexagons to control your home? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z What’s more, the hexagons link together like sheets of tiles on a bathroom floor. New electric storage material could put more zip in your Tesla 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Can you tell whether you tiled it with triangles or hexagons? Everything Looks Better in the Hyperbolic Plane 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z When 10 days old, bees secrete wax, which they then use to build honeycomb in perfect hexagons. Hello, Honey! 10 Sweet Photos of Bees 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Above the Japanese paper shoji screens in the lobby, the asanoha-mon wooden screen highlights the intricacy of putting small triangles together to form a hexagon. Saving Tokyo’s Hotel Okura 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But they would be foolish, because one day this may become a patented hexagon interface. Do you want these patent-pending hexagons to control your home? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the material becomes a regular crystal of tiled and stacked hexagons shot through with tiny pores, giving them a surface area similar to activated carbons. New electric storage material could put more zip in your Tesla 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Regular hexagons work, too, but not a regular pentagon. A New Way To Tile Your Floor (If You Like Pentagons) 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z When 10 days old, bees secrete wax, which they then use to build honeycomb in perfect hexagons. Hello, Honey! 10 Sweet Photos of Bees 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The fish scales, spiders, and sea sapphires crystals are also in thin plate form, but only those of the sea sapphires are perfect hexagons. How Do Sea Sapphires Become Invisible? 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The York Touchscreen Thermostat with patent-pending hexagon interface is now available throughout the US. Do you want these patent-pending hexagons to control your home? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Her hands were clasped around the hog stubble of a large boy’s neck, and they were swaying in the center of the hexagon. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The Speedway game will be purchased as a sculpted play-set piece that is placed on the back hexagon slot of the Infinity Base peripheral. There's More In The 'Disney Infinity 3.0' Toy Box This Year 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z When 10 days old, bees secrete wax, which they then use to build honeycomb in perfect hexagons. Hello, Honey! 10 Sweet Photos of Bees 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Geim had isolated the first two-dimensional material ever discovered: an atom-thick layer of carbon, which appeared, under an atomic microscope, as a flat lattice of hexagons linked in a honeycomb pattern. Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z With a little imagination, a similar nonperiodic effect is achievable using traditional tile shapes, such as squares or hexagons, though we are more used to seeing floors tiled with those in totally predictable ways. The man who magically made maths fun 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z His idle origami ultimately led to a remarkable entity named a trihexaflexagon, which was shaped like a simple, flat hexagon but could be manipulated to reveal three different faces. Make Your Own Hexaflexagons…and Snap Pictures of Them 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z At that point, it came into view: a near-perfect hexagon lattice, like a honeycomb. Neuroscience: Brains of Norway 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z On Earth, cooling and contraction will preferentially produce hexagons containing 120-degree angles. Moon's hidden valley system revealed 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z I barely get my last remaining force back to my capital city before the worm reappears a few hexagons away and wrecks a power generator. Surviving attacks from giant worms and evil Australians in 'Civilization: Beyond Earth' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The Cassini team hopes to learn more about how the storm works by paying particular attention to the corners of the hexagon. Storm Chasing on Saturn 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It will look like a flat, hexagon with two faces. Make Your Own Hexaflexagons…and Snap Pictures of Them 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Organic chemists typically plan their work on paper, sketching hexagons and carbon chains on page after page as they think through the sequence of reactions they will need to make a given molecule. Organic synthesis: The robo-chemist 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It is arranged in hexagons, heptagons and triangles. First boron ‘buckyball’ could be used to store hydrogen : Nature News Blog 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z The hexagon itself is about 20,000 miles across with winds estimated to be faster than 200 miles per hour. New Photo Of Saturn Highlights Hexagonal Jet Stream 2014-02-03T19:55:00Z It’s easy to imagine tiling a regular 2-dimensional Euclidean plane by hexagons. A Cuddly, Crocheted Klein Quartic Curve 2013-11-17T20:15:00.357Z Fold the resulting hexagon shape along all of its seams to break it in. Make Your Own Hexaflexagons…and Snap Pictures of Them 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The layers create a repeating pattern that provides a larger target for magnetic fields than the hexagons in each material — effectively magnifying the field. Physicists net fractal butterfly 2013-09-12T13:50:32.257Z In the 1930s, Michael Goldberg designed a family of highly symmetric spherical forms consisting of hexagons and pentagons. Mathematical Impressions: Goldberg Polyhedra [Video] 2013-06-25T19:15:00.150Z The researchers now used a similar but larger hexagon of prisms placed in a fish tank. 'Invisibility Cloak' Hides Cats and Fish 2013-06-11T20:15:00.180Z These wasps love tiling the plane with regular hexagons! A Cuddly, Crocheted Klein Quartic Curve 2013-11-17T20:15:00.357Z It plans to operate the tethered wings in small groups of six with each one anchored at the points of a hexagon. Google acquires kite-power firm 2013-05-23T10:27:38Z So in SEED54 the hexagons are irregular, and some of the internal angles are greater than 180 degrees, making them “concave” hexagons. On View: Haresh Lalvani’s SEED54: A Sculpture With a Twist 2013-02-04T19:47:58Z Tessellation is the process of creating a flat surface, such as a tiled floor, by repeatedly using squares, hexagons or other geometric shapes. Math museum adds up for kids 2013-01-22T22:07:43Z Chen and his coworker Bin Zheng first unveiled the principle last year with a six wedge-shaped prisms arranged to form a hexagon that could hide small objects. 'Invisibility Cloak' Hides Cats and Fish 2013-06-11T20:15:00.180Z The minarets of a Hamburg mosque sport green and white hexagons in the pattern of a football. Holy architecture: Not a curve out of place 2013-01-10T16:11:29Z The US made it through to the hexagon stage of World Cup qualifying, though not without hiccups such as a loss in Jamaica and making heavy weather of getting past Antigua and Barbuda. From Olympic Gold to Goonies 2012-12-21T14:00:00Z The hexagons are welded together, although not completely, leaving short, thin seams — the tracks that might confuse future archaeologists. On View: Haresh Lalvani’s SEED54: A Sculpture With a Twist 2013-02-04T19:47:58Z Graphene, a carbon structure in which the atoms lie in thin sheets of hexagons, formed the anode. Carbon Emerges as New Solar Power Material 2012-11-16T16:15:04.933Z And there's the strangest of all: an iPhone that looks like a stretched hexagon made of cheap black plastic. Disruptions: Disruptions: Apple Patent Fight With Samsung Spills Some iPhone and iPad Secrets - Disruptions 2012-08-05T15:56:37Z The foundation of the lighthouse was formed of seven screw-piles, six of them occupying the angles of a hexagon 46 feet in diameter, the seventh being in the centre. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z God, the symbolists said, was symbolized by a hexagon, whose sides were Glory, Power, Majesty, Wisdom, Blessing, and Honor. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z They are all different, yet they are all hexagons and “they all fit harmoniously into one object,” he said. On View: Haresh Lalvani’s SEED54: A Sculpture With a Twist 2013-02-04T19:47:58Z Each socket takes two sizes of square and one of hexagon heads or nuts. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Some have the perfect symmetry of a six-pointed star, some are hexagons adorned with hollow columns, whereas others resemble needles, prisms or the branches of a Christmas tree. Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled for the First Time 2012-03-16T11:15:00.237Z The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to scientists who revealed the remarkable properties of graphene, a single layer of carbon in which the atoms are arranged in hexagons. Graphene 2012-03-14T22:50:40.593Z The designs afterward became simpler, and octagon and hexagon meshes came to take the place of the close grounds of earlier manufacture. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z For one thing, it is not possible to tile a curved surface with hexagons; such a tiled surface is flat. On View: Haresh Lalvani’s SEED54: A Sculpture With a Twist 2013-02-04T19:47:58Z The most common form of hexagon nut is shown in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Irby and Mangles referring at a subsequent period to the ruins of the church, describe it as a double hexagon, and state that the half then standing had six sides. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Then Adrian showed Roger that the honey-comb, which is familiar to almost every one, was composed of a number of openings or cells, shaped like a hexagon. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z The blocks of stone had been cut in large hexagons which fitted together in a uniform mosaic, each piece outlined by a cement border. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z But the limitation to flat surfaces only applies, Dr. Lalvani noted, if the hexagons are regular, with equal-length sides and equal angles. On View: Haresh Lalvani’s SEED54: A Sculpture With a Twist 2013-02-04T19:47:58Z A hexagon measures 2 inches across the flats, what is its diameter measured across the corners? Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The building is hexagon shape and we look into half the hexagon. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z These are stripes that sizzle with energy, arranged in dynamic v-shapes, deltas and hexagons. Stella’s Yummy Paintings, Brutal Bacon, Sasnal: London Galleries 2011-11-01T02:35:12Z The top of the tree-trunk and the end of the branch are cut either in the shape of a lozenge, a hexagon, or a semicircle; and a hole is made through it. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z The town cross is a fine structure standing upon a huge hexagon, surmounted by a stone pillar 12 ft. high, ornamented by the royal and Fraser arms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z The proof of the construction is shown in the figure, the hexagon and other polygons being marked for clearness of illustration. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z For example, this picture of the noble window in the choir of Lincoln Cathedral shows the use of the square, hexagon, and pentagon. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z He was sincerely happy when he had finished one side of the hexagon; yet he had to wait for his liberation many long years. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The result is that the side of the regular hexagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the radius of the circle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z I needed only to glance at the hexagons of white tile to feel a deep, hard coldness in my bones, yet I stripped, dutiful, diligent, and laid my bare back against the floor, and waited. Justin Torres: “Reverting to a Wild State.” 2011-07-25T04:00:00Z An excellent example of filing is to file up a hexagon nut or a bolt head. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z We may start with a square, for example, but this is not so good as the hexagon because its side is incommensurable with the radius, and its perimeter is not as near the circumference. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z As the art developed, cubes, lozenges, and hexagons of travertine and grey lava were cut and fitted together in simple patterns. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z This theorem is obviously Pascal’s well-known theorem respecting a hexagon inscribed in a conic, for the special case when the conic has degenerated into the two lines l and l′. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Then give them each a hexagon, and ask them what kind of corners it has? Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z It is shown with flanged openings, though in small valves hexagons to receive a wrench would be substituted. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z For example, how many diagonals must be drawn in order to make a quadrilateral rigid? to make a pentagon rigid? a hexagon? a polygon of n sides. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It was of a hexagon form, five stories high, defended by bastions and a moat, and surrounded with raised walks or terraces. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Brianchon’s Theorem.—If a hexagon be circumscribed about a conic, then the diagonals forming opposite centres meet in a point. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z And then draw out from them that a hexagon is a figure of six equal sides, with six obtuse angles, just equal to each other in their obtuseness. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z Now, from point o to the horizontal line marked 1 inch, measured along the line of 60 degrees, is 15⁄32 inches; hence the hexagon measures twice that, or 25⁄16 inches across corners. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z That the side of a regular inscribed hexagon equals the radius must have been recognized very early. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Other is in brown hexagons, two inches across. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z The regular hexagon is more easily constructed, as shown in Prop. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Having done this, direct the folding till they have divided the hexagon into six triangles, meeting at the centre. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z The flanges vary in shape; but as a rule small valves are provided with hexagons and large ones with round flanges suitable for bolting to similar flanges to make joints. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The fact that we may use for tiles on a floor three regular polygons—the triangle, square, and hexagon—is noteworthy, a fact that Proclus tells us was recognized by Pythagoras. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Perhaps we may be momentarily conscious of individual circles; then the pattern may change to a hexagonal one, each “hexagon” consisting of seven circles—six surrounding a central one. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Brianchon’s Theorem.—If a hexagon be circumscribed about a curve of the second class, then the lines joining opposite vertices are three lines meeting in a point. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z It binds together the particles of bodies by molecular forces, which not only hold the particles together, but are exerted in special directions, which form triangles, squares, hexagons, and the like. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z The obtuse angle of this file is five-canted, while the regular cant is hexagon or six-canted, and it is found to be too obtuse for the purposes required of the saw file. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z In this case, for example, we have "hexagon" from the Greek words for "six" and "angle." The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Similarly, the sides of the hexagon appear to sag inward where the corners of the rectangle meet them. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z We may therefore now state Pascal’s and Brianchon’s theorem thus— Pascal’s Theorem.—If a hexagon be inscribed in a conic, then the intersections of opposite sides lie in a line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Then came a taste for arranging the bars or ties into trellis grounds, or grounds of hexagons, over which small ornamental devices would be scattered in balanced groups. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z The edges a, b, form a hexagon gauge, and edges c, d, form a square, while the edge e serves as a straight-edge. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The trefoil is closely connected with hexagonal designs, since the regular hexagon is formed from the inscribed equilateral triangle by doubling the number of sides. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Add 6 identical triangles to get the larger hexagon. Wordplay: Numberplay: Circular Logic 2011-04-06T17:23:18Z And always if two consecutive vertices of the hexagon approach nearer and nearer, then the side joining them will ultimately become a tangent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z You create four hexagons before discovering a mistake. Wordplay: Numberplay: Circular Logic 2011-04-04T15:00:57Z It is provided with an index wheel for milling squares, hexagons, or octagons, and the pen for the index wheel is operated by treadle. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z To inscribe a regular hexagon in a circle. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Octagonal fonts are also known, though uncommon; hexagons are even less common, and pentagons very rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z If two pairs of adjacent vertices coincide, the hexagon becomes a quadrilateral, with tangents at two vertices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z A square, though not more regular than a hexagon or octagon, is more beautiful than either, because a square is more simple, and the attention less divided. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z In many cases it becomes a question whether it is better to do a piece of work with plain mills, with an end mill, or with face mills, a common hexagon nut forming an example. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z It is a little easier to start with the hexagon, however, for we are already nearer the circle, and the side and perimeter are both commensurable with the radius. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It consists of minute but quite perfect hexagon dodecaëders of quartz in a white cement, is very soft, and cleaves sometimes in regular squares. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The cubics intersect in 9 points, being the 6 vertices of the hexagon, and the 3 Pascalian points, or intersections of the pairs of opposite sides of the hexagon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The stiff disposal of many of these figures, within flattened hexagons arranged in zones, is not pleasing, but the needlework is most remarkable for skill and carefulness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The nut to hold the wheel is a round one, which is easier to balance than a hexagon nut. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Graphene, in which carbon atoms are arranged in a flat hexagon lattice like chicken wire, is not only the thinnest material in the world at one atom thick, but also the strongest. Two Win Nobel for Work on Ultra-Thin Material 2010-10-05T10:50:00Z It's hard to guess because there are some dramatic changes from Civ 4, such as from squares to hexagons. A light laptop for Civilization V 2010-07-08T09:55:00Z The applications of this theorem are very numerous; for instance, we derive from it Pascal’s theorem of the inscribed hexagon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The most common shape of the cells was a regular hexagon, but there were all forms between the perfect hexagon and the perfect circle. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. For a hexagon nut this angle may be shown to be one of 15°, as in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The summer-house, an elegant hexagon, had a carved pillar at each angle. The Great Mogul Thus Hans answered my question: "How many angles has a hexagon?" Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology When the gelatine has set, we put the plate over a diagram, a hexagon for instance, and place a drop of ferrous sulphate solution at each of the six angles. The Mechanism of Life In one corner of the quadrangle was a hexagon glorieta enclosing the fountain that in days gone by supplied monks and bishops with water. Glories of Spain Hexagon heads are left black or finished as circumstances may require; when a bolt head is to receive a wrench and is to be finished, it is usually made hexagon. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Look now, here is a regular hexagon," continued Henry, making lines upon the gravel walk with a stick, "here is the bastion,—these lines are the flank,—the face,—the gorge: here is the curtain. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The printing of some other group as OH, CH3, adjacent to an angle of the hexagon means that this group replaces the H atom in the compound which is being illustrated. The Chemistry of Plant Life Kenchester appears to have been a small town, in shape an irregular hexagon, with an area of some seventeen acres, surrounded by a stone wall pierced by four gates. The Towns of Roman Britain He scurried up the incline and into an elevator which lifted him to the top of the hexagon, directly into the office of the Secretary of Commerce of all Nevia. Triplanetary The Franklin Institute standard dimensions for hexagon and square bolt heads and nuts when the same are left unfinished or rough, as forged, are as follows:— BoltDiameter inInches. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z It is crowned by a railing and, at the corners where the transition to the hexagon occurs, by stone pyramids. Cathedrals of Spain On that account, it is customary to indicate this formula by a plane hexagon, thus . The Chemistry of Plant Life From the benzene nucleus we can derive other aromatic nuclei, graphically represented by fusing two or more hexagons along common sides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" These are symmetrical combinations and modifications of familiar geometrical forms around the hexagon. Froebel's Gifts Furthermore a tap bolt may have a hexagon head, which is usually left unfinished unless ordered to be finished, as is also the case with set screws. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z But Yb may be expanded into a pentagon, hexagon, or polygon; and Xb then may have five, six, or many spurs. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It is a hexagon of shallow steps rising from the floor, and descending on the inner side. Westward with the Prince of Wales Arrangements connected with Claus’ formula are obtained by placing six tetrahedra on the six triangles formed by the diagonals of a plane hexagon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Then he lifts the square frame, and finds drawn upon the paper an enclosed geometrical form, a triangle, a circle, a hexagon, etc. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Cap screws are made with heads either hexagon, square, or round, and also with a square head and round collar, as in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z In general the square is a more convenient 108 form than any other; but the hexagon or octagon is sometimes better fitted for masses of work which divide in six or eight directions. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) They were black from corner to corner and built of a dozen or so hexagons whose edges caught the light. They Twinkled Like Jewels It will be seen, however, that the absolute disposition of the fourth valency may be ignored in a great many cases, and consequently the complex may be adequately represented as a hexagon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Cast on about 130 loops, and knit in French or honey-comb stitch, which you like; or any other pretty pattern you prefer, as embossed hexagon, &c. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet The cylinder also carries a collet adapted for recessed plates so as to receive square or hexagon nuts of different sizes for tapping purposes, the taps being held in the rotating chuck. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z These arches are very clumsily set to the sides of an irregular hexagon, with the central wall arch much larger than the side arches. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Beginning with the table itself, it may be a small oval, circular or hexagon shape. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Then try inscribing and circumscribing squares, hexagons, and other figures, and see if the circles thus defined would correspond to the several planetary orbits. Pioneers of Science In the N. E. angle is the pulpit, which is of oak, hexagon, ordinary, as are also the pews and seats. Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The part b of the centre punch is tapered so as to obstruct the vision as little as possible, while it is made hexagon or octagon at the upper end to afford a better grip. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Internally the building is an accurate hexagon, with a deeply arched recess in each side. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Beneath the whole platform is an immense court of two hundred feet across; it is a hexagon or nearly round shape. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life To set our minds at rest as to what would occur in the event supposed comes Sir Joseph Whitworth, who exhibits his gun with polygonal rifling, the bore being a hexagon with rounded corners. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 It was a solid mass of patchwork, composed of squares, parallelograms, and hexagons. Aunt Jane of Kentucky At other times she deposited an egg, which lay in an irregular position, on one side of the hexagon, and not fixed by an end to the bottom of the cell. New observations on the natural history of bees All can feel the impracticability of the Hubongramillposanfy numeration, and the absurdity of the equality of contour of a regular pentagon and hexagon in one and the same circle. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II These niches have columns in front of them in the style of the hexagon, with chambers at the angles of the great court or square. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life These meet two other threads, and are plaited four times, dividing into two again, and performing the same twist, the whole making a hexagon rather longer than round. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The squares were of dark gray and red-brown, the hexagons were white, the parallelograms black and light gray. Aunt Jane of Kentucky Hence he was led to compare the orbits of the other planets’ circles described in pentagons and hexagons. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler I escape, for the present, by telling him the story of Dædalus and the honeycomb; set him to draw a pattern of hexagons, and lay the question of black bands up in my mind. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The insides of the bowls, except the nearly vertical rims, are embossed with a honeycomb pattern, and beneath each hexagon here, there is a plain circle outside. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Mechlin has precisely the same ground, only that the threads are plaited twice instead of four times, as in Brussels, making the hexagon roundish instead of long. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework On each of the octagon or hexagon sides the pile has a half-round flute usually from 2½ to 3 ins. in diameter. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs These are the equilateral triangle, the square and the regular hexagon. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual He took the lanthorn and crept forward cautiously, while Dale and Saxe watched the play of the light on the wonderful prisms and hexagons which hung in all directions. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps In some the segments are squares, in others hexagons, and in others, again, they are of a pentagonal shape. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness An example of this is given in Figure 128, which represents a ring having a hexagon cross section. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught To file a hexagon, or six-sided nut will be a good test with a file. Practical Mechanics for Boys In the upper storey of the chapel the ceiling is made up of hexagons and octagons, the intervening space being filled up with circles, trefoils of irregular shapes, though symmetrically disposed, and quatrefoils. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire He scurried up the incline and into an elevator which lifted him to the top floor of the hexagon, directly into the office of the Secretary of Commerce of all Nevia. Triplanetary In drawing pavements, except in the cases of square tiles, it is necessary to make a plan of the required design, as in this figure composed of hexagons. The Theory and Practice of Perspective Now from point O to the horizontal line marked 1 inch, measured along the line of 60 degrees, is 1 5-32nds inches: hence the hexagon measures twice that, or 2 5-16ths inches across corners. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Then what does he mean by saying octagons and hexagons are very regular? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 In a square pool, the water, previously unconfined, becometh a square; in a six-sided pool it becometh a hexagon, in an eight-sided pool an octagon, and so forth. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Two copper rods, J, fixed on the base to two plates of copper furnished with binding screws, are widened and flattened at their upper ends to rest against opposite parallel sides of the hexagon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 First set out the hexagon as at A, then draw parallels 1 1, 2 2, &c., to mark the horizontal ends of the tiles and the intermediate lines oo. The Theory and Practice of Perspective For a hexagon head we have the processes, Figures 170 and 171. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught A figure of five sides is called a pentagon, of six sides a hexagon, of eight sides an octagon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 The cells were not dug out of a block of wax as Huber described, nor were they made according to Darwin, circular at first, and then made into hexagons by the pressure of their neighbors. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Some of them are regular hexagons, with six straight sides; others are like a wheel with six spokes, with jewels clinging to each spoke. Some Winter Days in Iowa It is easy to put all these parallels, perpendiculars, and diagonals into perspective, and then to draw the hexagons. The Theory and Practice of Perspective Example.—What is the radius across corners of a hexagon or six-sided figure, the length of a side being an inch? Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught In shape it approximates very closely to that of a foreshortened regular hexagon. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features He sits down at his desk and draws a "Kekulé ring" or rather hexagon. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries If two points of Pascal's hexagon approach coincidence, then the line joining them approaches as a limiting position the tangent line at that point. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry Having all these guiding lines it will not be difficult to draw as many hexagons as you please. The Theory and Practice of Perspective The proof of the construction is shown in the figure, the hexagon and other polygons being marked simply for clearness of illustration. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught It is fully 56 miles in diameter, and, though generally described as nearly circular, exhibits very distinctly under high powers a polygonal outline, approximating very closely to an equilateral hexagon. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features It was formed chiefly of stones from eighteen to thirty inches over, many of them hexagons, and commodiously placed for walking on. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 Finally, three of the vertices of the hexagon may coalesce, giving a triangle inscribed in a conic. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry To draw the hexagon in perspective we must first find the rectangle in which it is inscribed, according to the view we take of it. The Theory and Practice of Perspective For a bolt with a hexagon head the lines would be drawn in the order shown in Figure 152. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught It exhibits a very marked departure from circularity, the outline of the border approximating in form to a hexagon with nearly straight sides. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features In the second, is a small cabinet, the ceiling of which is in small hexagons, within which are cameos and heads painted alternately, no two the same. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Six of these flowers are to be made, and afterwards sewed on the silk, radiating from the centre, and each occupying the middle of one side of the hexagon. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Divide EB into four equal parts, and from each division draw lines to vanishing point, then by means of diagonals, &c., draw the hexagon. The Theory and Practice of Perspective Standard Number of threads per inch Long diameter, I, or diameter across corners Short diameter of hexagon and square, or width across J Depth of Nut, H Depth of bolt head, K Nominal. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught It is a regular hexagon, but it never was quite finished, and there are no guns yet mounted on it. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America In either case, during this change from circle to hexagon, is the marrow getting thicker without getting longer? Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Continue in this manner, increasing the t.c. stitches by 2 at each section of the hexagon, in every round, until there are 33 t.c. in each division, always making 5 chain between. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. This figure is built up from the hexagon standing on a rectangular base, from which we have raised verticals, &c. The Theory and Practice of Perspective Small snowflakes almost always fall in little stars with 6 points, and sometimes in hexagons with straight sides. Treatise on Light Cheese takes the cube form as naturally as eggs take the oval and honeycombs the hexagon. The Complete Book of Cheese Even the boss at the top is mechanical, for it is just like an ordinary hexagon nut. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman The gold flowers are to be worked in the same way, and attached over the centre of each 5 chain which form the corners of the hexagon. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. To put the hexagon into perspective, draw base of quadrilateral AD, divide it into four equal parts, and from each division draw lines to point of sight. The Theory and Practice of Perspective Suddenly a huge black hexagon was before him. Oberheim (Voices) From the number of roofing tiles of local stone, shaped into hexagons, found, I think these arcades were roofed in with them, placed overlapping each other, giving a very good effect. The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath The gable sets back from the face of the lower wall as before, and in it is a rose window, also based on the hexagon principle in design. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See The ceiling of the portico is divided into hexagons and squares, enriched by various designs in the shape of eggs and roses, finely executed. The Idler in France Draw BC, and EF through centre o�, and thus we have the six points through which to draw the hexagon. The Theory and Practice of Perspective The hexagon was now clearly visible as it loomed larger and nearer, surrounded once more by the dwarfed engineering vessels which had shaped it, and with its might, burned out the hollow darkness beyond. Oberheim (Voices) The massive rampart, forming an irregular hexagon, cuts off the corners of various blocks in the ground plan. Early Britain—Roman Britain These bedroom walls had old pallid- yellow wallpaper that was bubbled and flaking off and patterned onto the strips of wallpaper there were hexagon shapes. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The bottoms of the pasteboard cases, used to hold the wax records, are either tacked or glued to this hexagon core, as shown in Fig. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Snow-flakes have been also found in the form of regular hexagons and other plane figures, as well as in cylinders and spheres. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons. The Grammar of English Grammars If a spider were to visualise numerals, we might expect he would do so in some web-shaped fashion, and a bee in hexagons. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Cartoon versions of herself and her family were trapped in each hexagon like semi-beings in monads that were unable to connect to the bigger picture, but like the wallpaper they were fading away. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Its only serious fault is an exaggeration of the height of the pillars in proportion to the size of the hexagon they support. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Near this is the Giant's Well, a spring of the purest water, the bottom formed by three perfect hexagons, and the sides of regular columns. Views a-foot "A square, though not more regular than a hexagon or an octagon, is more beautiful than either: for what reason, but that a square is more simple, and the attention is less divided?" The Grammar of English Grammars You follow me, of course, sir?—to the triangles and circles and hexagons this cube would seem to be an ordinary square. The Certain Hour I have said that the room in which M. le Vicomte de Chagny and I were imprisoned was a regular hexagon, lined entirely with mirrors. The Phantom of the Opera It was, like most of the other rooms, a hexagon, with two windows looking eastward. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 It is important that the angles in the blade be made perfect, and that its outline represents an exact half hexagon. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Near this is the Giant's Well, a spring of the purest water, the bottom formed by three perfect hexagons and the sides of regular columns. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 As a rule the columns are quadrangular; I saw but few pentagons and hexagons. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I France itself, the "splendid hexagon," with its mountains, rivers and plains, is hardly more varied than this vast area of rock and woodland. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne It is an irregular hexagon, built of Stone upon a Small Rock standing at the west Entrance of the Bay, and is surrounded on all Sides by the Sea. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World Swages are hammers having specially formed faces for finishing rounds, squares, hexagons, ovals, tapers, etc. Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon Q. Are there more than one sort of hexagons? The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age Around five sides of the hexagon were seats, tier above tier, appropriated to the public who wish to see as well as hear. Across the Zodiac At each angle of this hexagon the crest gives off a delicate flexible calcareous spine, which is sometimes four or five times the diameter of the shell in length. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays After this hall there is a room with an altar, which is a regular hexagon, having sides each three feet long, and protected by a cupola cut in the rock. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan They knew when they were loaded, and in straight lines as geometrically true as the hexagon cells in which the honey would be stored they darted to their hives. Nature's Serial Story Busy with my speculations, I was astonished soon after to realize that the triangle had become a hexagon, so to speak. The Treasure-Train They looke like honeycombs, but the holes are not hexagons, but round. The Natural History of Wiltshire I have had a Gothic architect from Cambridge to design me a gallery, Which will end in a mouse, that is, in an hexagon closet, of seven feet diameter. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 It would seem incontestable, therefore, that the hexagon is not merely the result of mechanical necessities, but that it has its true place in the plans, the experience, the intellect and will of the bee. The Life of the Bee She attempted to count their numerous little faces, so regular, so finely cut into hexagons, more polished, more brilliant than diamonds. Piccolissima Also I should have stated that the chief difference is when the thickness of walls of the upper part of the hexagon and of the pyramidal basal plates are contrasted. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 My carpets have been altered to fit all sized odd-shaped apartments from parallelopiped to hexagons. Urban Sketches A good action is not distinguished from a bad action by marks so plain as those which distinguish a hexagon from a square. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 These are the equilateral triangle, the square, and the regular hexagon. The Life of the Bee The angle at the base of each cell, the apex of the pyramidal cavity, is buttressed by the ridge formed by two faces of the hexagon of another cell. The Life of the Bee Can the thicker basal plates be a contrivance to give strength to the whole comb, with less consumption of wax, than if all the sides of the hexagons were thickened? More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Of the three figures, the hexagon is the most proper for convenience and strength. The Life of the Bee Bees, as if they knew this, make their cells regular hexagons. The Life of the Bee |
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