Hexagonal tiling

The hexagonal tiling, hexagonal grid, hexagonal tessellation or hexagonal lattice (Schläfli symbol: {6,3}) is one of the three possible proper Euclidean tilings of 2D space, alongside the square tiling and triangular tiling. It is constructed with three hexagons being placed at each vertex.

While not nearly as heavily investigated as the square tiling, many general-purpose cellular automaton simulation programs support hexagonal tilings to an extent. However, since most of these have a primary focus on square tilings, such support is seldom without flaw.