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-5 dodecahedral honeycomb 3-sphere, with 2 hemispherical cells. There are nine uniform honeycombs in the [5,3,5] Coxeter group family, including this regular form. Also the bitruncated form, t{5,3,5}, , of this honeycomb has all truncated icosahedron cells. The Seifert–Weber space is a compact manifold that can be formed as a quotient space of the order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb. This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of polychora and honeycombs with icosahedron vertex figures: This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of regular polytopes and honeycombs with dodecahedral cells: The rectified order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has alternating icosahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a