"this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata" (fantastic-mr-foxbody)
03/30/2015 at 01:37 • Filed to: Mostly Harmlists, Hexalicious
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"this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata" (fantastic-mr-foxbody)
03/30/2015 at 01:37 • Filed to: Mostly Harmlists, Hexalicious | 0
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Hexagons are awesome. That goes without saying. They have many amazing characteristics that make them useful in all kinds of engineering applications, and more importantly, they look cool. Here are the best car-related uses for my favorite polygon.
5. Sweet lookin' wheels
Just look at that 80's goodness.
4. Badass off-road tires
If that's not somewhat impractical futuristic awesomeness, I don't know what is.
3. Sandwiches
Yes, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is the real term that real engineers use. No really, wikipedia said so, it must be true. Basically, if you want to build a very light but strong composite, you can sandwich a honeycomb core between two sheets of something like aluminum or carbon fiber, like so:
Honeycomb structures are used in this application because they can be both strong and flexible, while using very little material.
As modern road cars move to using more and more composites, they'll be built with more and more sandwiches. Large portions of a modern high level race car (F1, LeMans prototypes, etc.) have been built with this technique for decades. See this blurry picture of a crashed silver arrow:
2. The nuts and bolts of the thing
Every car has a bunch of bolts holding it together, and most of those bolts have nuts. I'm willing to bet that the heads of most of those nuts and bolts are hexagonal. That's basically because fewer than six sides would make getting at bolt in a tight spot harder (fewer options, or lower granularity of angles), and more than six sides would lead to shallower angles on each vertex, so more rounding off.
You think your knuckles are a little banged up now, but trust me, without your friendly neighborhood hexagon it'd be a blood bath in your engine bay. Oh and the FCC would probably want to sound proof your garage. Little Billy next door should never have to hear that language.
Mmmm... Nuts.
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Those dope F-body Firebird taillights, duh!
GhostZ
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 01:41 |
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Somebody say Aluminum Honeycomb?
Baeromez
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 01:55 |
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You have all of my YES on the Firebird taillights; they're one of my favorite parts of my car. I've got an idea to do LED taillights with each hexagon lit by a separate LED and maybe a controller to do some sweet patterns for strobe turn signals or hazards.
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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Baeromez
03/30/2015 at 02:08 |
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Hexagonal dot matrix taillights?
DO IT. DO IT NAAWO!!
Dean Beyer
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 02:32 |
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Interiors
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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Dean Beyer
03/30/2015 at 02:39 |
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Oh my, yes. What 80's cocaine super car is that?
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Baeromez
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 02:47 |
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I'm not the first, though I don't know if anyone's done it with the hex tail lights.
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Dean Beyer
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 03:22 |
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1966 Lamborghini Marzal by Bertone.
Cé hé sin
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 04:31 |
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1A. Honey
Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 04:54 |
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Ever tried polishing these? You can't they're plastic!
edu-petrolhead
> this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
03/30/2015 at 08:42 |
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MFW there's no Lamborghini Marzal
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edu-petrolhead
> edu-petrolhead
03/30/2015 at 08:43 |
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Oops, I should had checked other replies, huehue
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this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
> Dean Beyer
03/30/2015 at 13:32 |
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Mmmmmmm me like.