Modular · the shape
Why hex, and what that buys.
The tile is the unit. The hexagon is the shape. Six edges, six neighbors, six routes, lowest-edge-to-area of any regular tiling, round apertures fit, mesh degrades smoothly under failure.
In progress
Full deep-dive lands next.
Hex vs square trades. Mesh-degree implications. The planar farm conformation. Cylindrical and boom variants for non-LEO zones. The docking mechanism (an EPM port adapted from the published TESSERAE work at MIT Media Lab / Aurelia Institute — the architecture is theirs; the planar conformation and the compute payload are ours).
Interactive self-assembly simulation embedded here, running real rigid-body physics and dipole forces on tiles that find their own home positions and run a bond diagnostic on each docking.