Monday, December 31, 2018

Hexagon Tiles

 Starting around 2015, Target sold these hexagon tiles.

This photo @mrjmarvel


They snap together. They stack. My students made game boards for both chess and Risk.


To tile the plane, the tiles fit together with a left or right chirality. But if you force them together right in the middle of the two, the tiles function as a hinge.




That opens many other possibilities.









Had some help from the extended family on this one:



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