Hexed again, or another idea that got away..

In geometry, a hexagon has six edges, or sides. On a regular hexagon, all of the sides are the same length and the total sum of its internal angles amount to 720 degrees, while its internal angles are individually 120 degrees. A hexagon is easy to visualise. Just think of the waxen honeycomb of the bee; it is made of a myriad of interlocking hexagonal cells. The cells interlock so that they take up the least amount of space, and the hexagon is the only polygon – apart from the triangle - that interlocks.
The bee ‘chooses’ to build her combs in a hexagon rather than a triangle, because the walls of a triangular cell would be longer and more fragile than the sturdier, hexagonal structure. The hexagon occurs elsewhere in nature. Ancient volcanic formations are often made of hexagonal columns of basalt, the most common volcanic rock. The rock is a crystalline solid, or a solid whose atoms and molecules are arranged in a repeating pattern, extending in all three dimensions. Even when solidified into monoliths, the rocks ‘remember’ the hexagonal shape. Before finishing this post, I thought of the most glorious marketing strategy…hexagonal honey jars…now why didn’t I think of that before? It turns out that many people already have...

http://www.modernbeekeeping.co.uk/item/175/8-oz-hexagonal-honey-jars-with-lids---box-of-94