#procedural generation

It's an atypical implementation because I enjoy reinventing wheels. I focused on branchless logic. It's fun.

But in truth I don't really need hexagons, I just like them. Because they're the bestagons. But functionally it's just an isometric mesh with a different indexing pattern.

So I decided to go back to graph paper and see what numerical relationships I could find in a directly isometric layout, just like I'd started the hex algorithm. And what I found surprised me.

Because, while I certainly can pull out numerical patterns in various ways, they're all ugly as sin! The hexagonal structure is very nearly invariant, but going directly isometric seems to force me into at least four cases, depending how I structure it.

It's possible that I'm hampered by the lurgy.