Introduction to hexagons, part 2 #
In part one, I described how I created lots of variants of a diagram to try to figure out which one to use on my hexagon guide.
Introduction to hexagons, part 1 #
When I started making interactive diagrams the hard part was making them interactive part. But over the years I've gotten much better at that. Now the problem is designing the diagrams. A few weeks ago I was looking at the beginning of my hexagons guide to see what I could improve. I noticed this paragraph had no corresponding diagram:
In math, the "circumradius" is the distance from the center to a corner (I call this size); the "inradius" is the distance from the center to the middle of an edge, sqrt(3/4)*size. The "maximal diameter" is twice the circumradius; the "minimal diameter" is twice the inradius. Wikipedia has more.
My first thought was to add a diagram for this. I already have a diagram about angles, so I could add a diagram showing the inradius and circumradius:
