#hexagonal tiling

[clockheartdoll]

fisheye dots

[skate-tautoloandsym]

Honey tile, I guess.

[failedcode]

[Hexaverse] The smallest structure of space

As you might have guessed already, Hexaverse is named after the most prevalent feature: The hexagonal tiles. Normal quadratic tiles are a simple grid which is easy to render and mouse coordinates are calculated by dividing by the tile size. Hex tiles are not that different – you can transform the one into the other:

The y-axis isn’t straight anymore and what tile the mouse is over isn’t two lines of code, but there are big up sides: The distance from one field to another is constant. Moving diagonal has no advantage (or even meaning) on these fields – exactly like it should be in space. Every direction can be expressed as a coordinate pair – and there is no need to differentiate between even or uneven coordinates!

Then, there is the matter of horizontal or vertical and regular or compressed representation of the tiles.

I like the compressed H-tiling the most – it looks nice and is easy to construct.