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-8-3 triangular honeycomb construction as a uniform honeycomb, Schläfli symbol {∞,(8,∞,8)}, Coxeter diagram, , with alternating types or colors of cells. Order-8-3 triangular honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the order-8-3 triangular honeycomb (or 3,8,3 honeycomb) is a regular space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) with Schläfli symbol {3,8,3}. It has three order-8 triangular tiling {3,8} around each edge. All vertices are ultra-ideal (existing beyond the ideal boundary) with infinitely many triangular tilings existing around each vertex in an octagonal tiling vertex figure. It is a part of a sequence of regular honeycombs with order-8 triangular tiling cells: {3,8,"p"}. It is a part of