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From: christer@cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Re^2: hex paper
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.103908.23182@cs.umu.se>
Date: 27 Jul 90 10:39:08 GMT
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In article <1990Jul26.150234.23258@acc.stolaf.edu> danjudd@dagon.stolaf.edu (Dan Judd) writes:
>In article <38413@sequent.UUCP> rjk@sequent.UUCP (Robert Kelley) writes:
>>I don't know what the referenced articles are about, but maybe someone here can supply Postscript
>>code to generate open hexagonal grids (like honeycombs), i.e. "Hex Paper".  Code appreciated!
>>
>>xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>
>
>I keep a small archive of ftpable postscript utilities, pics etc
>they are available from nic.stolaf.edu (130.71.128.8) in /pub/ps.
>There are a couple of hex paper generaters, mostly for rpg's, but
>they could be used for what ever you want. 
>
> [...]
>
>Dan Judd
>danjudd@acc.stolaf.edu
>

Well, here's another hex map generator that you can add to your archive. I
wrote this last year when someone on rec.games.board requested a hex map
generator, it's a quick hack, but it works. It could be improved by, for
instance, making it figure out the height and width factors from the page
size), but I felt it wasn't really worth the effort.


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%!
% Simple Hex Map Generator
% Copyright (c) Christer Ericson, 1989-10-10.
% Dept. of Computer Science, University of Umea, Sweden.
% Internet: christer@cs.umu.se
%

initgraphics

% ==== variables ===

/len 20 def          % determines the size of the hex (length of its sides)
/height 22 def       % specifies number of hexes (0101-wwhh)
/width 17 def
/fontsize 10 def     % change this to go along with the specified 'len'
/donumbers true def  % print coordinates in each hex (standard numbering)

% ==================

/Times-Roman findfont fontsize scalefont setfont
/astr 3 string def

/print {
  dup 10 idiv astr cvs show
  10 mod astr cvs show
} def

/hex {
  /col exch def
  1 1 10 {
    pop
    len 0 rlineto
    60 rotate
  } for
  120 rotate
  donumbers {gsave 0 0 fontsize sub rmoveto row print col print grestore} if
} def

/lineofhex {
  gsave
  height -1 1 {
    hex
  } for
  stroke
  grestore
} def

0 setlinewidth
40 40 moveto
/row 1 def
1 1 width {
  lineofhex
  row 2 mod 1 eq
    {len 0 rlineto 300 rotate len 0 rlineto 60 rotate}
    {len 0 rlineto 60 rotate len 0 rlineto 300 rotate}
  ifelse
  /row row 1 add def
} for

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