Why do we see hexagons in nature so often?

Hexagons: 428 hexagons with a side of 3mm, each side is shared between two hexagons, thus their total length is 6 * 3mm * 428 / 2 = 38.5 cm Hexagons win That said, I'd like to add there's more "art" into the three-dimensional structure of the hexagons, and how two hexagons connect to one another mid-comb (i.e. the bottom of one hexagon to the bottom of the hexagons on the other side). read more

It’s a simple matter of geometry. If you want to pack together cells that are identical in shape and size so that they fill all of a flat plane, only three regular shapes (with all sides and angles identical) will work: equilateral triangles, squares, and hexagons. read more