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This video demonstrates various polygonal shapes forming in a spinning drum of boiling liquid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0vKP1_m4

Hexagons are the bestagons

I read some time ago that fluid dynamics researchers had reproduced the hexagon effect with a rotating drum full of insoluble fluids.

From the article:

> Similar regular shapes were created in the laboratory when a circular tank of liquid was rotated at different speeds at its centre and periphery. The most common shape was six sided, but shapes with three to eight sides were also produced.

Not sure if link was shared because of this strange tweet from an a16z partner:

https://twitter.com/rmcentush/status/1762905410699481529

Gonna pitch this guy a startup that fixes this.

If you find deranged, supernatural conspiracy theories fun and interesting, take a trip down the “Saturn cube” rabbit hole sometime. There is an entire occult mythology here.

Saturn's Hexagon