On: Hexels – a new art tool

[iM8t]

Seeing that I spend most of my day staring at pixels (squares), I always find this hexagonal art remarkably amazing.

I know that back in the day using squares was the easiest way how to represent images on the screen, but could the exact same thing be done with hexagons nowadays?

[TheLoneWolfling → iM8t]

Indexing with hex pixels gets... fun.

You can represent it as row / columns with every second row or column offset, but then straight vertical / horizontal lines turn jagged.

[colanderman → TheLoneWolfling]

Even moreso, image operations get more fun. Most image filters (and other transforms) assume a regular square grid because the math works out really well (axes are orthogonal and same scale). Any deviations from these assumptions make the math more convoluted. (Pun intended.)

[zem → TheLoneWolfling]

here's a really good collection of hex grid links:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html#hex

[spyder → iM8t]

A search for "hexagonal pixel" has lot of relevant and interesting results: https://www.google.hu/search?q=hexagonal+pixel

[ertdfgcb → iM8t]

Do you mean making a screen with hexagonal pixels? That would be really cool, and I think it would just be a matter of changing the shape of the electrodes and crystals (for an LCD).