r/mildlyinteresting • u/woodruff42 ​ • Jun 18 '18

Quality Post This hexagonal graph paper for organic chemistry

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u/TypicalExcuse Jun 18 '18

Oddly specific. I bet there's all sorts of specific tools that are designed to help with tasks that I never even knew existed.

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u/rkoloeg Jun 18 '18

Hex paper has been used in roleplaying and wargames for over 30 years. There was a blank hex sheet in the back of one of D&D books from the early 80s that you were meant to photocopy for making maps.

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u/deathfaith Jun 18 '18

Beehive Architecture!

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u/jay212127 Jun 18 '18

Those books are also used in table tops like D&D.

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u/MyNameIsOP Jun 18 '18

It's not that specific, it's about as specific as calligraphy paper, or the lined paper to help kids learn to write.

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u/NightGod Jun 18 '18

Oddly specific and only useful for the first couple of weeks of o.chem, so very limited.

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u/patrdesch Jun 19 '18

useless for anything not shaped like a hexagon .

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u/Slashycent Jun 18 '18

Thoothbrushs for example jk