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Just looking at the title, I was (almost) wondering if it would be honeycomb-shaped... but apparently not. A hexagonal device would have been interesting though. Who says a tablet has to be rectangular anyway? :)



Layouts, windowing systems, graphic libraries....They almost always assume that screen devices are rectangular.


I've did a bit of experimentation with hexagonal layouts in the past, just for fun (hexagonal grids have some useful properties). But is has some problems that make it very unconvenient to use: for example, you can't subdivide a hexagon into smaller hexagons. This makes for really wasteful layouts :)




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