hexagonal-tiles

Covering Earth with Hexagonal Map Tiles

Many strategy games use hexagonal tiles. One of the main advantages is that the distance between the center of any tile and all its neighboring tiles is the same. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on marrying a hexagonal tile system with the traditional geographic system (longitude/latitude). I think it would be interesting t...

Generating triangular/hexagonal coordinates (xyz)

I'm trying to come up with an iterative function that generates xyz coordinates for a hexagonal grid. Maths has never been easy for me (I'm just not very clever!) and this problem has me stumped. With a starting hex position (say 0,0,0 for simplicty) I want to calculate the coordinates for each successive "ring" of hexagons, as illustrat...