Sunday, September 15, 2019

Points of sail on a hex grid part 2

We went over the patterns of movement on a vertical hex grid to replicate the 32 directions of the compass rose.  Now we'll go over the patterns on a horizontal grid.  The patterns are going to be pretty much the same, just oriented differently.

First, we need to establish our directional notation.  Not entirely arbitrarily, I'll choose East as our main ("A") direction.



The patterns are all the same as on the vertical grid, just shifted 90 degrees.  This combined table lists them all for both grids.

Direction Vertical hexes Horizontal hexes
N A E/F
NbE 4A1B 2F1E
NNE 2A1B1A1B 5F1E
NEbN 1A1B F
NE 1A3B 1A3F
NEbE B 1A1F
ENE 5B1C 2A1F1A1F
EbN 2B1C 4A1F
E B/C A
EbS 2C1B 4A1B
ESE 5C1B 2A1B1A1B
SEbE C 1A1B
SE 1D3C 1A3B
SEbS 1D1C B
SSE 2D1C1D1C 5B1C
SbE 4D1C 2B1C
S D B/C
SbW 4D1E 2C1B
SSW 2D1E1D1E 5C1B
SWbS 1D1E C
SW 1D3E 1D3C
SWbW E 1D1C
WSW 5E1F 2D1C1D1C
WbS 2E1F 4D1C
W E/F D
WbN 2F1E 4D1E
WNW 5F1E 2D1E1D1E
NWbW F 1D1E
NW 1A3F 1D3E
NWbN 1A1F E
NNW 2A1F1A1F 5E1F
NbW 4A1F 2E1F

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