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Tessellating tiles for use as 2d-histogram bins, game boards, etc.

Hexagonal tiles are tessellating hexagons placed adjacently to each other.

The use of this tag is fairly broad, encompassing statistics, computer science and game design.

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Books about hex board war game programming?

I plan to write a hex board war game. Any books/sites to recommend? Probably require: game strategy AI programming board (hex) representation turn-based game loop ... (community wiki please)
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JPanel Not Displaying Components? (Hexagon Grid)

Sorry, a complete beginner to java. I have done a square grid before, for a checkers game, however I am having trouble for a hexagonal grid. I followed the same idea of with the square grid however, I have small little dots on my JPanel, although I…
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hexagon grid drawing issue

I seem to be having a bit of trouble drawing a proper hex grid: As you can see, the hexagons are just slightly misaligned, though I believe my math is correct (some of which is verfied via http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/). My method of…
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Drawing hexagonal grid using texture

I have previously done couple of experiments to find the best way to draw large-scale hexagon grids. I have tried drawing the hexes using THREE.Line , THREE.LineSegments. It was working quite well for small grids, but if I had more than 1000+…
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Hexagon grid in random shape

I am trying to create a hexagon grid in a random generated shape with max 12 hexagons a row. The original design of what I am trying to achieve: Design In this JS Fiddle you can see what I've got so far, but I can't seem to figure out how to add…
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Hexagon tiles not lining up properly, gaps inbetween

I'm trying to draw a map with hexagonal tiles. However, I'm struggling to get the tiles to line up properly, so there is no space inbetween them. One with the tiles I use normally and one zoomed in on with another tile made to make sure it's not…
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How to Render a Hex Grid

I am currently working on a game that requires a hexagon grid to be rendered in order to provide a place for the game to take place. I am using offset coordinates to store the hex grid in memory. When I attempt to render the grid, I get a result…
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Tessellating hexagons over a rectangle

I have an infinite grid of hexagons, defined by a cubic (x y z) coordinate system like so: I also have a viewport -- a rectangular canvas where I will draw the hexagons. My issue is this. Because the grid of hexagons is infinite in all directions,…
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Using a 3rd variable rather than count in hexbin

I'm afraid this is a slightly abstract question, but is there a way to use a metric other than 'count' in hexbin. My code to produce a hexbin chart would be something like: library(hexbin) hexbinplot(latitude~longitude,data=X) Given that my output…
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Any code samples open-source-engines, or open source hex tile games, references for writing Hex Tile based Games?

Using other questions on here I found Amit's Page on Games including a section on Hex Tiles which also links to a game coding wiki here. I am looking for suggestions: (a) libraries, engines or code samples in any language. I have found one in…
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Depth First Search in C

If I have to iterate through a table of hexagonal cells checking for text inside them by conducting a recursive depth first search, arranged as shown: [Typing it out on StackOverflow apparently doesn't keep the formatting.] Example 1: Example…
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Creating a tiled hex game with Swift

I'm new to Swift / Objective-C but have been coding Mac and Windows apps / games for years using Xojo (similar to Visual Basic). I want to make a simple turn-based strategy game with a tiled hex map and I want to do it in Swift for Mac OS X. What…
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Recursively created linked lists with a class, C++

I'm using C++ to recursively make a hexagonal grid (using a multiply linked list style). I've got it set up to create neighboring tiles easily, but because I'm doing it recursively, I can only really create all 6 neighbors for a given tile.…
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Hexagonal grid representing a cellular network as used in mobile communication systems

I am relatively new to Matlab and I want to generate a hexagonal grid that represents a cellular network where each hexagon has a specific behaviour. My question is how does one go from a square grid to hex grid (transfer matrix)?. This is what I…
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Is there a faster way to determine hexes within line-of-sight?

So, I have a 2d hex grid, where each hex is either a wall or a path, and I'd like to implement line-of-sight (in the sense of "a hex is visible from another hex if you can draw a straight line from any part of the start hex to any part of the end…
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