ICE: Building a regular hexagon


Let’s build a regular hexagon!

In this example, I take the vector (5,0,0) and rotate it by 60 degrees, then 120, then 180, and so on, until I have the 6 points of the hexagon. In ICE, that equates to getting an array of rotations, stuffing that into Rotate Vector, and getting an array of positions back.

Notice how the length of each side is the same (5), as is the distance of each point from the local origin.
RegularHexagon

Before I jumped into building the polygon, I first did a quick test with a point cloud, to make sure I understood how to add points in the right places. In general, I think it’s good practice to do some kind of “proof of concept” before you really dive into the details.
RegularHexagon-prelims

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