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Today would be a good day I think to take a break from not-updating this site to remind everyone that this year's Hexagon Project at Interdependence Day Scranton is currently underway. I hadn't been planning on writing another post about it this year, but of late I received this lovely promotional poster, which I thought at least worth relaying to the wider hexagonal community. In commemoration of this year's festivities, I have also added to the Hexagonal Library a PDF of a presentation by Hexagon Day organizer Beth Burkhauser to the National Art Education Conference, "Global Interdependence and Art Education: Where Hexagons Make the Connection." More musings on the project can also be found in last year's blog post on the subject. In general of course HEXNET.ORG supports all efforts to relate the civic virtues of hexagons to their more familiar geometric ones, as both are clearly manifestations of the same unified underlying reality. MOAR »

We at HEXNET.ORG have been experiencing a rash of weird, bot-like comments on various and sundry posts over the past several days. We're not sure what caused this evil to be unleashed on us, but it's possible Hexagonbot is at least partly responsible, as it seems to have attracted a lot of bot attention on Twitter. Anyway, our previously airtight CAPTCHA has failed us, so until we resolve this, anonymous comments will be moderated. We hope to return to normal as soon as possible, but we simply do not have time to deal with this crap at present. MOAR »

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen." – Page/Plant

Well, it's totally the end of May, and it has come to our attention that we haven't actually written a full-on blog post here in like four months, nor have we frontpaged anything since January's Dozenal Pi Day announcement. In retrospect we probably should've frontpaged the actual Dozenal Pi Day post (even though it was brief and relatively content-free), to at least bookend that whole process, but at the time it didn't really seem that important.

At any rate, the top post on our front page for most of the year has been an announcement for an event that happened months ago. This, at the very least, makes the site look lame and unmaintained, and it's a situation we feel needs to be remedied. To that end, we have several MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS to make: MOAR »

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Having recently discovered that the prevailing number spirals of our age are not nearly hexagonal enough for my needs, I invented new a circular spiral based on centered hexagonal numbers, which I have named the GRAHAM SPIRAL. The first rotation contains 6 dots, representing the first 6 natural numbers, and each subsequent rotation n contains n*6 dots, in the fashion of hexagonal tessellation. In the examples above, variable dot sizes represent the number of unique prime factors in a given number, while the uniform dots represent primes themselves, but of course any arithmetic attributes can be plotted in the same fashion. The resulting patterns clearly demonstrate the deeply hexagonal structure of the natural numbers, &c. MOAR »

We have launched a new reblog on Tumblr for the purpose of raising hexagonal awareness and hexagon-consciousness among the Tumblr community. Going forward, I expect this blog to be an important aesthetic precursor to the eventual promulgation of HEXAGONALISM as a self-sufficient artistic tendency.