Hexagon partitioned into six equilateral triangles. Like squares and equilateral triangles, regular hexagons fit together without any gaps to "tile the plane" (three hexagons meeting at every vertex), and so are useful for constructing tessellations. The cells of a beehive honeycomb are hexagonal for this reason and because the shape makes efficient use of space and building materials. The Voronoi diagram of a regular triangular lattice is the honeycomb tessellation of hexagons. It is not usually considered a triambus, although it is equilateral. The maximal diameter (which corresponds to the long diagonal of the hexagon), "D", is twice the maximal radius
Real projective plane of the (equivalent) ordinary disk are identified with each other; this is how a real projective plane is formed out of a disk. Therefore the surface shown in Figure 1 (cross-cap with disk) is topologically equivalent to the real projective plane "RP". The points in the plane can be represented by homogeneous coordinates. A point has homogeneous coordinates ["x" : "y" : "z"], where the coordinates ["x" : "y" : "z"] and ["tx" : "ty" : "tz"] are considered to represent the same point, for all nonzero values of "t". The points with coordinates ["x" : "y" : 1] are