Honeycomb structure aerospace industries, automotive and furniture to packaging and logistics. The material takes its name from its visual resemblance to a bee's honeycomb – a hexagonal sheet structure. The hexagonal comb of the honey bee has been admired and wondered about from ancient times. The first man-made honeycomb, according to Greek mythology, is said to have been manufactured by Daedalus from gold by lost wax casting more than 3000 years ago. Marcus Varro reports that the Greek geometers Euclid and Zenodorus found that the hexagon shape makes most efficient use of space and building materials. The interior ribbing and hidden chambers
Dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb Dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a uniform honeycomb, constructed from dodecahedron, icosahedron, and icosidodecahedron cells, in a rhombicosidodecahedron vertex figure. Wide-angle perspective views: There are 5 related uniform honeycombs generated within the same family, generated with 2 or more rings of the Coxeter group : , , , , . The rectified dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from icosidodecahedron, and rhombicosidodecahedron cells, in a cuboid vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram . The cyclotruncated dodecahedral-icosahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from truncated dodecahedron, icosahedron cells, in a