Hexagon - Blog Posts

Underground Basement

Typical mid-sized transitional basement design with a bar, gray walls, and a fireplace in the center of the room.

Display Wine Cellar

Hail the Hexagon...

The full light of our sun allowed the Cassini spacecraft to capture this image of Saturn's hexagonal polar jet stream, but the sun does not provide much warmth. In addition to being low in the sky (just like summer at Earth's poles), the sun is nearly ten times as distant from Saturn as from Earth. This results in the sunlight being only about 1 percent as intense as at our planet. 

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 560,000 miles (900,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 33 miles (54 kilometers) per pixel.

More info: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21327/hail-the-hexagon

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Bathroom - Kids

Bathroom - small traditional kids' white tile and subway tile marble floor and multicolored floor bathroom idea with shaker cabinets, white cabinets, a two-piece toilet, gray walls, an undermount sink, quartz countertops and a hinged shower door

Kids Boston

Small elegant kids' white tile and subway tile marble floor and multicolored floor bathroom photo with shaker cabinets, white cabinets, a two-piece toilet, gray walls, an undermount sink, quartz countertops and a hinged shower door

Transitional Living Room in Chicago Example of a mid-sized transitional open concept dark wood floor and brown floor living room library design with gray walls, a standard fireplace and a tile fireplace

Saturns north pole hexagon.

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Bedroom San Francisco Example of a mid-sized 1950s master dark wood floor and brown floor bedroom design with white walls

Midcentury Sunroom Inspiration for a mid-sized 1960s ceramic tile and red floor sunroom remodel

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All my designs so far and a A. Sphere concept that I'm not liking 🙁 (I'm to lazy to draw hex's brothers 😒

Father and son moment augh this post totally wasn't to just show you my hex design 😥 (don't mind the random brush change I did this on my phone)

Hexagonal queen

Transitional Living Room in Chicago Example of a mid-sized transitional open concept dark wood floor and brown floor living room library design with gray walls, a standard fireplace and a tile fireplace

A tangent about hexagons

Because the project I’m working on brought it, I found it interesting, and I thought some people might need it.

So, as I’m working on a quite large project (hopefully done by next week, although I have doubts on that), and the base structure of it is more or less hexagonal. Anyway, here are some of my tips to get good hexagonal shapes.

The easiest way to do this is obviously with hinges and plates, like that :

While not necessarily accurate, it’s cheap and efficient, albeit squishy, and can be expanded to any size.

Instead, we can go the technical way, and use maths, by considering that a hexagon is the combination of 6 equilateral triangles. We end up with this :

Practically unbreakable, very stable, and can be made with as much technical bricks as possible, so it is easily expandable, but it’s harder to attach it to classic bricks.

So, none of these two designs are really good alone, whether on pure usability, or on durability. Alone, that is. Now, here is the fun part : thanks to the way Lego works…

…they work together ! And, with some modified 2*2 plates, they mostly hold to one another ! Isn’t that awesome ? What’s more is that, while I’m using 2*4 plates and a 7 holes technic bars, that also works with 2*6 and 11 holes bars, which is good.

Now, let’s apply this knowledge to make a solid prism with an hexagonal base :

By using a bunch of plate and two of these hexagonal bases, we get a hollow tube, which is solid through the hexagons, but can still break because of a diagonal force. To fix that, we need to add supports between the supports, like so :

This also means that this design becomes stackable. Congrats, you made a long hexagon tube ! It can also be round, with the right modifications, notably with 2*2 curved tiles :

It fits perfectly, and it’s good to make solid near-circles !

Sorry for the photos’ quality !- They were taken quite late with my phone, and without proper lighting.