{"generator":"GNU social 1.2.0-beta4","title":"Notices tagged with hexagons","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"http:\/\/tantek.com\/","displayName":"Tantek","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/status.blaise.ca\/theme\/neo-gnu\/default-avatar-profile.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/status.blaise.ca\/theme\/neo-gnu\/default-avatar-stream.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/status.blaise.ca\/theme\/neo-gnu\/default-avatar-mini.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"207"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/status.blaise.ca\/theme\/neo-gnu\/default-avatar-profile.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","url":"http:\/\/tantek.com\/","portablecontacts_net":{"displayName":"Tantek","addresses":{"formatted":"\nSan Francisco, CA\n"}}},"content":"Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy\u2019s Rectifier Globe computer graphics?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I was watching the TRON: Legacy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray remaster (only my second time watching the 4K remaster) in the background earlier today when I sensed something \u201coff\u201d in the land mass tiling of the rotating globe graphic.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I paused the video and after less than a minute of scrutinizing the dark globe with orange outlined hexagon tiling, spotted a single pentagon (among the hexagons) inside the 2d projections of the American continents. See if you can spot it.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>After writing the first draft of this post, I double-checked the graphic and found one more pentagon!<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/><a class=\"auto-link figure\" href=\"https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/\"><\/a><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Credit: Image from <a class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/\">https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/<\/a>, fair use from Walt Disney, Inc.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>The first pentagon I spotted is in the northwest quadrant of South America, and clearly visible at time index 1:38:03. The second pentagon is near Alaska. Now I can't unsee either. How did only two pentagons make it in there? Seems unlikely to be an accident or rendering bug. The only thing I can think of is the designer\/artist(s) that created the graphic animation placed the two pentagons deliberately. But why?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>GMUNK Studio\u2019s post about the Rectifier Globe (<a class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gmunk.com\/TRON-Rectifier-Globe\">https:\/\/gmunk.com\/TRON-Rectifier-Globe<\/a>) doesn\u2019t mention the pentagons.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Yes, I know the math\/geometry about how you can\u2019t tile a sphere with only hexagons, that several pentagons are necessary at various points on a sphere to stitch together the hexagons. This is just two small pentagons, not several, and the Rectifier Globe only has\/uses hex-tiling for the land masses, not the entire sphere. Nor is the hex-tiling \u201cperfect\u201d by any measure. The hexagonal edges of the continents don\u2019t match-up with hex-tiling much (most?) of the way around the coasts of the continents either, so it can\u2019t have been to fix that.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Are those two pentagons merely imperfections (necessary or accidental)? Or an Easter-egg or secret reference of sorts from the graphic artist(s)?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I searched the web and could not find any answers or even mentions of these two pentagons in this graphic. Did anyone notice them previously?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>#<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">TRON<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">TRONLegacy<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">pentagon<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">pentagons<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hex<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hexagon<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hexagons<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hexTile<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hexTiles<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">hexTiled<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">Rectifier<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">RectifierGlobe<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">globe<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">computerGraphic<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">computerGraphics<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">math<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">maths<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">geometry<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">sphere<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">tile<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">tiled<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">tiling<\/span><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>#<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">Blaugust<\/span> #<span class=\"p-category auto-tag\">Blaugust2026<\/span>","generator":{"id":"tag:status.net,2009:notice-source:ostatus","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ostatus"}},"id":"https:\/\/tantek.com\/2026\/235\/t3\/two-pentagons-hex-tiled-tron-legacy-globe","object":{"id":"https:\/\/tantek.com\/2026\/235\/t3\/two-pentagons-hex-tiled-tron-legacy-globe","objectType":"note","content":"Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy\u2019s Rectifier Globe computer graphics?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I was watching the TRON: Legacy 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray remaster (only my second time watching the 4K remaster) in the background earlier today when I sensed something \u201coff\u201d in the land mass tiling of the rotating globe graphic.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I paused the video and after less than a minute of scrutinizing the dark globe with orange outlined hexagon tiling, spotted a single pentagon (among the hexagons) inside the 2d projections of the American continents. See if you can spot it.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>After writing the first draft of this post, I double-checked the graphic and found one more pentagon!<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/><a class=\"auto-link figure\" href=\"https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/\"><\/a><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Credit: Image from <a class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/\">https:\/\/ilikeinterfaces.com\/2015\/03\/24\/map-ui-tron-legacy\/<\/a>, fair use from Walt Disney, Inc.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>The first pentagon I spotted is in the northwest quadrant of South America, and clearly visible at time index 1:38:03. The second pentagon is near Alaska. Now I can't unsee either. How did only two pentagons make it in there? Seems unlikely to be an accident or rendering bug. The only thing I can think of is the designer\/artist(s) that created the graphic animation placed the two pentagons deliberately. But why?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>GMUNK Studio\u2019s post about the Rectifier Globe (<a class=\"auto-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gmunk.com\/TRON-Rectifier-Globe\">https:\/\/gmunk.com\/TRON-Rectifier-Globe<\/a>) doesn\u2019t mention the pentagons.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Yes, I know the math\/geometry about how you can\u2019t tile a sphere with only hexagons, that several pentagons are necessary at various points on a sphere to stitch together the hexagons. This is just two small pentagons, not several, and the Rectifier Globe only has\/uses hex-tiling for the land masses, not the entire sphere. Nor is the hex-tiling \u201cperfect\u201d by any measure. The hexagonal edges of the continents don\u2019t match-up with hex-tiling much (most?) of the way around the coasts of the continents either, so it can\u2019t have been to fix that.<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>Are those two pentagons merely imperfections (necessary or accidental)? Or an Easter-egg or secret reference of sorts from the graphic artist(s)?<br class=\"auto-break\" \/><br class=\"auto-break\" \/>I searched the web and could not find any answers or even mentions of these two pentagons in this graphic. 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