Honeycomb aligned. Thus, each cell has two vertically oriented walls, with the upper and lower parts of the cells composed of two angled walls. The open end of a cell is typically referred to as the top of the cell, while the opposite end is called the bottom. The cells slope slightly upwards, between 9 and 14°, towards the open ends. Two possible explanations exist as to why honeycomb is composed of hexagons, rather than any other shape. First, the hexagonal tiling creates a partition with equal-sized cells, while minimizing the total perimeter of the cells. Known in geometry as the
Order-5 cubic honeycomb t{4,5} with truncated square and pentagonal faces: It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) truncated cubic honeycomb, t{4,3,4}, with octahedral cells at the truncated vertices. Same as Bitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb The cantellated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has rhombicuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a wedge vertex figure. It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) cantellated cubic honeycomb, rr{4,3,4}: The cantitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has rhombicuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a mirrored sphenoid vertex figure. It is similar to the Euclidean (order-4) cantitruncated cubic honeycomb, tr{4,3,4}: The runcinated order-5 cubic honeycomb or runcinated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb , has cube, dodecahedron,