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Honeycomb structure is the optimal way to cover a region with shapes of the same area while minimizing the boundary.

You get honeycomb lattices naturally when you try to pack things efficiently into a surface. For example the same sized soap bubbles on the water surface.

The grid cells are tightly packed to equidistance to each other just like the bubbles.




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