Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Hexagonal Pixels
Message-ID: <879@becker.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 15:34:52 GMT
References: <2477@canisius.UUCP> <17400010@hpfcdj.HP.COM> <307@unizh.UUCP> <5351@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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In article <5351@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma.UUCP (Richard Ottolini) writes:
|Hexagonal grids are important for differential equation and cellula automata
|grids because they are more isotropic than rectangular grids (less funny
|stuff at 45-degree angles).  I wonder if people use them in graphics?

	There is a quite extensive discussion of
	hexagonal grids in "Digital Halftoning",
	by Robert Ulichney, MIT Press, 1987.

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