Honeycomb honeycomb conjecture, this was given by Jan Brożek and proved much later by Thomas Hales. Thus, a hexagonal structure uses the least material to create a lattice of cells within a given volume. A second reason, given by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, is that the shape simply results from the process of individual bees putting cells together: somewhat analogous to the boundary shapes created in a field of soap bubbles. In support of this, he notes that queen cells, which are constructed singly, are irregular and lumpy with no apparent attempt at efficiency. The closed ends of the honeycomb cells are
Icosahedral honeycomb part of a sequence of regular polychora and honeycombs {3,"p",3}: It a part of a sequence of regular polychora and honeycombs {"p",5,"p"}: There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [3,5,3] Coxeter group family, including this regular form as well as the bitruncated form, t{3,5,3}, , also called "truncated dodecahedral honeycomb", each of whose cells are truncated dodecahedra. The rectified icosahedral honeycomb, t{3,5,3}, , has alternating dodecahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a triangular prism vertex figure: There are four rectified compact regular honeycombs: The truncated icosahedral honeycomb, t{3,5,3}, , has alternating dodecahedron and truncated icosahedron cells, with a triangular pyramid vertex