You will see a working interactive demo in this page subsequently you can checkout the demo code yourselves to play.

Implementing the hexagonal grid and the globe for visualization in D3.

Projecting the hexagonal grid onto a globe.

Aggregating the world terrian into the hexagonal grid.

Creating the hexagonal grid to cover the world.

Understanding the hexagonal coordinate system.

This article will take on the following investigation path, I sense the pure fun of the spatial computing and try to bring my understanding closer to nature.

Spatial Tessellation belongs to the spiritual side of my computing adventure,īecause spatial representation and reasoning are my on-going research thesis. The topics in the book taught me an important lesson, development can be divided into immediate needs for professional lifeĪnd spiritual food for enriching life.

I remembered the pleasure of reading The Computational Beauty of Nature. There is great explanation that the law of nature, which automatically optimized in a self-organized system, which approximate to hexagons, read more from Why Nature Prefers Hexagons (2016). You will never find a raft of square bubbles. If you blow a layer of bubbles on the surface of water, they instantly rearrange into three-wall junctions with more or less equal angles of 120 degrees between them. The bees create their honeycombs with precision engineering, an array of prism-shaped cells with a perfectly hexagonal cross-section. How does the nature inspires us about the optimal geometry?

Hexagon data