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Triangular Honeycomb Board


A k×m×n triangular honeycomb board is an arrangement of hexagons packed closely as in a honeycomb into a triangular shape with k hexagons along the bottom, m hexagons along the left angled side, and n hexagons along the right angled side.

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The most interesting and symmetrical such boards have k=m=n (Konhauser et al. 1996, DeMaio and Tran 2013, Wagon 2014), making them "triangular triangular honeycomb boards," and may simply be termed n-triangular honeycomb boards for short. n-triangular honeycomb boards are illustrated above for small n.

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n-triangular honeycomb boards are the basis for various graphs constructed on the basis of moves by variations of chess pieces moving between hexagons. The simplest of these is the triangular honeycomb king graph, were a triangular grid king is allowed to move from a hexagon to any adjacent hexagons. Connecting adjacent hexagon by edges then gives a graph isomorphic (modulo indexing convention) with the (n-1)-triangular grid graph, as illustrated above for n=2 and n=3.


See also

Hexagon, Hexgaonal Grid, Triangular Grid, Triangular Honeycomb Acute Knight Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Bishop Graph, Triangular Honeycomb King Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Obtuse Knight Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Queen Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Rook Graph

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References

DeMaio, H. and Tran, L. "Domination and Independence on a Triangular Honeycomb Chessboard." College Math. J. 44, 307-314, 2013.Gliński, W. Rules of Hexagonal Chess With Examples of First Openings. London: Hexagonal Chess Publications, 1973.Konhauser, J. D. E.; Vellman, D.; and Wagon, S. Which Way Did the Bicycle Go and Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries. Washington, DC: Amer. Math. Soc., 1996.Wagon, S. "Graph Theory Problems from Hexagonal and Traditional Chess." College Math. J. 45, 278-287, 2014.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Triangular Honeycomb Board." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularHoneycombBoard.html

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