Hexagon tiling with ICE


hexagon_tiling_rr
Here’s a relatively simple ICE tree that arranges hexagons on the XZ plane. The “difficult” part was creating the arrays of position coordinates. For that I used the standard modulo technique. It’s funny, it all makes perfect sense when you’re plugging stuff together, but afterwards it’s hard to make heads or tail of what you did đŸ™‚
hexagon_tiling_1

To understand what’s going on here, it helps to look at the final arrays that are built:
hexagon_tiling_show_values

The math for arranging the hexagon tiles is pretty simple. I started with a simple test point cloud to make sure I understood what I needed to do. After that, it was just a question of setting up the arrays.
hexagon_tiling_testing

If you want to take a look at the ICE trees, here’s some compounds. Note that this isn’t a finished piece of work. It’s more of a draft version. For example, my hexagon has a side length of 5 and that’s hardcoded into the ICE tree right now.
Hexagon_Tiler.xsicompound
Hexagon_Math_Tester.xsicompound

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