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
Order-6 hexagonal tiling honeycomb fundamental domain. It has an octahedral Coxeter diagram with 6 order-3 branches, and 3 infinite-order branches in the shape of a triangular prism, . It is one of 15 regular hyperbolic honeycombs in 3-space, 11 of which like this one are paracompact, with infinite cells or vertex figures. There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [6,3,6] Coxeter group family, including this regular form. It has a related alternation honeycomb, represented by ↔ , having alternating triangular tiling cells, and a regular form as , called a triangular tiling honeycomb. This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of polychora and