Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Drawing a Hex Board

[surculus]

Hi,

I need to draw up a Hex board, and am having problems with it. I need to draw it in its conventional form and also in John Nash's form.

I did find the hexgame package that simplifies the drawing in its conventional form. However, when I try using it there is just a huge red box with a black outline. Perhaps because this is from 2006? I also found a code sample here.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}[
    hexa/.style={ 
      shape=regular polygon,
      regular polygon sides=6,
      minimum size=1cm,
      draw,
      inner sep=0,
      anchor=south,
      fill=lightgray!85!blue,
      rotate=30
    }
  ]
    \foreach \j in {0,...,5}{%
      \pgfmathsetmacro\end{5+\j} 
      \foreach \i in {0,...,\end}{%
        \node[hexa] (h\i;\j) at ({(\i-\j/2)*sin(60)},{\j*0.75}) {};
      }
    }
    \foreach \j in {0,...,4}{%
      \pgfmathsetmacro\end{9-\j} 
      \foreach \i in {0,...,\end}{%
        \pgfmathtruncatemacro\k{\j+6}  
        \node[hexa] (h\i;\k) at ({(\i+\j/2-2)*sin(60)},{4.5+\j*0.75}) {};
      }
    }
    \foreach \k in {0,...,10} {%
      \node[circle,red,minimum size=1cm] at (h3;\k) {3;\k};
    }
    \foreach \k in {0,...,10} {%
      \node[circle,blue,minimum size=1cm] at (h1;\k) {1;\k};
    }
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

I tried modifying it such that it would look like a traditional Hex board, but it gets very weird when you mess with the variables.

I would also like to draw a Hex game like John Nash played it. This is basically just a grid. Little dots to mark vertices where the grids cut each other, and lines (edges) between all vertices lying on the same y=x line.

Is there a pre-existing way, or rather an easy way to do this? If not, could someone point me to documentation on how to do this?

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi surculus,

welcome to the forum!

What exactly do you mean with conventional form and John Nash's form? Perhaps post images as attachments, so we can see what is desired.

Stefan

[surculus]

Hi

Sorry for the incredibly late reply, had a hiatus in my essay writing..

What I consider a 'conventional' Hex board:

hex-board-conventional.png (109.95 KiB) Viewed 6622 times

You may notice that some of the edges are thicker than the others. It would be great if there is a convenient way to make some edges of the board thicker, to signify a path on the 'graph'.

What I meant by John Nash's Hex board:

hex-board-nash.png (33.26 KiB) Viewed 6622 times

Do you know of any way to do this successfully?


Thanks,
Surculus

[localghost]

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[surculus]

As localghost said, this has been solved over at stackexchange. Very helpful and insightful comments from anyone who is interested.

Sorry that I did not note the cross-post.