Monthly Archives: September 2013

Spinning Hexes

rotatingHexTiles-300I finished up a project the other day, so I gave myself a few minutes to make something just for fun. Here’s a grid of hexagonal tiles with little bits of graphics in them. Over time, random tiles rotate to create a new pattern (in this screenshot, you can see 5 tiles in mid-rotation). I played around with a whole bunch of different coloring schemes, and found that this combination of light and dark warm browns had just the right kind of feeling for me. Although it may look like the tiles are circular (a sensation that’s even stronger when you watch them rotate), they really are all hexagons. Read on for how I did this and the program itself.

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