Impossible? Hexagon/Honeycomb repeatable pattern

oXYnary · Jun 2005

In, I repeat, In 1X1 1X2 dimensions. Without distorting.

I never made to geometry.

MoP · Jun 2005

It's certainly not impossible.
You'll need to do a bit of maths for that though... or alternately just make a 1x2 hexagon shape, repeat it a lot in a few rows, crop the image until it tiles, then resize down.

Trial and error ... or a bit of mathematics

oXYnary · Jun 2005

A repeatable pattern is 128X75 (for 1 hexagon).. that wont work out under 2048. 75X"X" wont equal any of the factor of 2's.

Hmm its funny all the online ones either use wacky dimensions or call a 8 sided one a hexagon (hmm and I thought I didnt know my terminology)

KDR_11k · Jun 2005

I remember creating a tileable hexagon pattern in 32x32. It wasn't mathematically perfect but good enough to fool the eye. Do you absolutely need it mathematically perfect?

oXYnary · Jun 2005

KDR can you post it? I think a non mathmatical version is the only one tht will work. I would like to see how you tweaked it (and if possible ask permission to use it as a basis for mine).

All I have is this:

It dimensionally will never become a 1X2 enlarging or shrinking with repetition under 512 limitation.

Snowfly · Jun 2005

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A repeatable pattern is 128X75 (for 1 hexagon)

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For what is this? I think I'm missing something. Do the sides have to be equal length as well?

oXYnary · Jun 2005

Its the above picture. I can shrink or enlage that, and then repeat in order to make the pattern. The problem is the dimensional fraction never allows enough to gain a 1:1 or 1:2 ratio mathmatically.

Snowfly · Jun 2005

Not sure what you're asking with all your technical gibberish. Anyway, try this.

oXYnary · Jun 2005

Thats pretty damn good! Its still stretched. I think that mathmatically having a perfect tileable hexagon in the dimensional aspects we are limited to is impossible.

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2005

Nothing's perfect, game graphics is all a bunch of hacks anyway, right?

If you squish it a little, I think vertically about 85%, you can tile 2x2.

CrazyButcher · Jun 2005

you could counter the squising with texture matrices
assuming you do something like large scale applying to surfaces it's relatively easy to modify texture coords of brushes and such, then you could scale the texture back to perfect proportions

Impossible? Hexagon/Honeycomb repeatable pattern

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