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🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons
cookie combs
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MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ONE. That’s how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you’re feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that’s one nacho.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The overcooked back half.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s so dear of you to assume I have friends. That cookie is all mine, sweetie.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Someone hexed those cookies
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The toppings are also cursed.
subtext@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
What have you got against M&M cookies??
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Du bist eine hexe
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Cookie Catan!
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This only happened because they laid them in rows of 5-4-5-4.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think that depends on the fiction between each item / cell, and the plane.
I think soap bubbles for example will always form hexagons.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That pan can fit 21 cookies
Opisek@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It can clearity fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!
sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Isn’t it 2⁵?
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
turn the tray halfway through cooking for god sake
Patches@ttrpg.network 19 hours ago
But then everyone is happy. You get gooey and crunchy in one batch 🤣
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
I thought that was a shadow 😄
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Voronoi cookies!
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Replace em with bears and you’ll get many hexbears hexbear-shining hexbear-chapochat
felsiq@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I need soft circular bears in my life
QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 1 day ago
It’s what all of us really are at hexbear: circle bears. We only developed the hexagonal shape from pushing against each other over time - the result of countless struggle sessions. But at heart, even now we’re still just sweet, circular bears once you look beneath the hard hexagonal edges wrought by all the outdoor cats and stacked rocks.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
LOL you can see how the back is darker and has this curve. Oven not heating g
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any household grade ovens really provide even heat, maybe if you use them with the rotating fan thing, but certainly not in standard mode. You need to spend the big bucks on professional kitchen grade stuff for that.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
could also be a shadow?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
how do you know that’s the back and not the side?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The whole trick is consistent ball size.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I just fill the pan and use cookie cutters after they’re baked.
I eat the scraps.
btw anyone know what the onset signs of diabetes is?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Can also put the tray with cookies on it in the freezer, that can help keep them from spreading as much! Then throw it in the oven from frozen like. Or…firmed up like.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Interesting, but increasing the flour and baking soda seems a bit simpler.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass oiyt, presumably to protect myself.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Hoimo@ani.social 22 hours ago
Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?
Gustephan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’ve legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.
Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Voronoi cookies!
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
me after discovering the voronoi node:
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Shame about all the pentagons there.
Thordros@hexbear.net 1 day ago
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
No they don’t (necessarily))??
Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.
Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.
sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
Bees literally do not use hexagons, they make roughly round shapes and the force of the surrounding cells compresses them into hexagons. This is called self-organization and it’s observable in bubbles as well.
mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s not a plain tiling problem, it’s a circle packing problem. The optimal euclidean circle packing results in each cookie having six cookies around it, and so when they melt, hexagons.
Beebabe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Annnnd now I’m baking cookies
dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.
Bloobish@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Hexagons are a internal function of the universe
Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fuck reading instructions. Amirite???
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Off to make some hexacookies. Who wants one?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wonder if this relates to them having six legs somehow. Like, they’re able to measure where the next hex should be based on leg length or something.
Hoimo@ani.social 22 hours ago
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
critical@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Bestagon cookies!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re the hexagreatest!
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Insert CGP Gray video on how hexagons are the bestagons
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY
Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 hours ago
Alright, as long as someone commented it!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Hecks a good cookies.