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Make Your Own 91-Space Hexagonal Board. Files and directions for making a hexagonal chess board.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Sam Trenholme wrote on Tue, Dec 24, 2002 01:31 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
As a note, if you use XV (a UNIX image viewer), you can easily convert any .PNG (or GIF, or JPG, or....) image in to a PostScript file, which is one of the formats which Kinko's accepts. It is also possible to convert these postscript images in to .pdf files, but the resolution goes to the tubes, since the ps2pdf filter converts the images to lossy .jpg images. <p> I can make a postscript version of the hex board suitable for giving to Kinko's if anyone wants that. <p> - Sam

ajay wrote on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 12:23 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I'd like to know how to make an hexagonal board with 8 hexagons per side instead of the one you've made with 6. [email protected]

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Jul 10, 2004 03:50 AM UTC:
Begin by drawing a single hexagon of the size you will need in a graphics editor, making it as perfectly symmetrical as you can. Use geometry or trigonometry to figure out how to do this. Use this hexagon as a brush to draw a row of eight hexagons, letting shared sides overlap. Place seven rows above this one, increasing the width by one hexagon each time. Again, let any shared sides overlap. Place seven more rows above this one, but decrease the width by one each time, such that the last row will have eight hexagons again. Make sure that all rows are centered. Then color the spaces appropriately with three different colors.

Karl wrote on Fri, May 16, 2008 02:07 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I used a similar process to make my own board for Connect6 (a variant on
Gomoku), as well as a hex chess variant I developed to play with friends.


One website I found that was helpful is:
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/. Partway down the page is a hex PDF
generator. My game called for a roughly rectangular grid of hexes, so I
just set it for the size I wanted; for a hexagonal array, just make a
bigger array than you need and trim it.

XiangQi wrote on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 08:46 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Great Resource

Thanks!

Tom Byfield wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2023 07:21 PM UTC:

How could I make a 61 tile/5 sided hexagonal game. Id like to know since i have a game i want to post on this website that has it.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2023 11:48 PM UTC in reply to Tom Byfield from 07:21 PM:

The Diagram Designer will provide you with the means for drawing hexagonal boards of various shapes.


François Houdebert wrote on Sat, May 4 06:09 AM UTC:

There are now svg files that can be printed on play mats, e.g. :

https://glyphobet.net/three-player-chess/svg/hexagonal_tiles.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hexagonal_chess_board.svg


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