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Hexels – a new art tool

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See http://madeinhexels.tumblr.com for some examples.

why isn't this on the homepage...

hell, this is a better homepage all together.

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?

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).

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.

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

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

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.)

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

Was anyone else confused by http://www.hexraystudios.com/ vs http://www.hex-rays.com/

That is one dangerously chosen company name... seeing the banner at the top I was immediately reminded of Hex-Ray's IDA and was wondering what kind of art they'd be creating from assembly now...

Awesome. Isometric art is so simple yet so neat. These days, I use my tool Isomer (http://jdan.github.io/isomer/) to draw, but I'll be giving this a shot for sure!

Uh... What is it? There's no information and it's not even clear what I should click on. Neither a dmg or exe are of much help on my phone, and tapping the top banner just makes safari tell me "can't install profile".

It's a paint program that lets you draw on non-square grids. http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/

This looks like it's well suited for isometric drawings. Is that the intent?

Some of these examples look very much like Tycho (ISO 50) stuff.

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Where's the linux download?

There isn't one? Or did you realize this and that was your passive-aggressive way of complaining about the lack of Linux support? If so, it's much more constructive to make a case for why somebody should do something, instead of trying to shame them for not doing something that you think it's obvious they should've done.

You sound like you are advocating some kind of value-based judgement on effort... Heretic!

Might be worth trying it in Wine.

The free version worked without any problems in wine for me.

Which Wine verson? 1.6.2 crashed for me.

wine-1.6.1 in a 64 bit wineprefix worked for me. I haven't tried other configurations though, they might work as well. I also haven't tried a clean prefix, it might be something I have installed in my default one that makes it work.

If it's important to you let me know and I'll see if I can help out.

Try: "Is there a Linux version available? If not, I'd like to register my interest. Thanks."

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