26.8.1 Hexagons in space
See Section
25.9.1
for hexagons in the plane.
The
hexagon
command creates hexagons in space.
hexagon
takes three mandatory arguments and four optional arguments:
A
,
B
,
P
, four points.
Optionally,
var
1
,
var
2
,
var
3
,
var
4
, four variable names.
hexagon(
A
,
B
,
P
⟨,
var
1
,
var
2
,
var
3
,
var
4
⟩
)
returns and draws the regular hexagon
ABCDEF
in the plane
ABP
, oriented so that angle
ABC
is positive.
Examples
A
:=
point
(0,0,0);
B
:=
point
(3,3,3);
P
:=
point
(0,0,3);
hexagon
(
A
,
B
,
P
)
hexagon
(
A
,
B
,
P
,
C
,
D
,
E
,
F
);
simplify
(
coordinates
(
C
))
⎡
⎢
⎢
⎣
−3
√
6
+18
4
,
−3
√
6
+18
4
,
3
√
6
+9
2
⎤
⎥
⎥
⎦
