Idea: a BiocHexwall

[federicomarini]

Some of you might have seen the Hexwall back in useR Brisbane 2018 - the wall of stickers, clustered by color, and shaped as Australia (a nice writeup is here: https://www.mitchelloharawild.com/blog/user-2018-feature-wall/)

When I saw Martin’s keynote in Toulouse it was “just stickers” from Bioc, so I thought, let’s do a “BiocHexwall”.

So there I started to work on a repo, namely https://github.com/federicomarini/biochexwall. That is the writeup of code I have till now. The idea is to take the note and fill that with stickers.

I have to admit I am stuck at the point where the image needs to be converted to hex-positions, but maybe it is a fun side-idea to work with - and some other Bioc folks might have a little more talent than my tiny spatial skills.

Following up a conversation with @lgatto , here is the quick description of it 😃

In the end, I almost feel we are two commands away from having a nice note filled with stickers
(gut feeling) - yet, these two commands are missing in my head and in my current solution.

Anyone with some ideas on this who wants to chip in?

[federicomarini]

To give you an idea of what could come out of it...

This is what would come out with default positioning (not all most recent stickers are included, sorry for the ones missing)

[jorainer]

I really like the idea! (but don't have time to help in hacking, sorry)

[federicomarini]

No prob @jorainer - I'm fine in seeing I was not the only one to think it'd be damn cool 😋

[Teejay128]

Seeing this 4 years later and it seems like a really good idea.

Not sure how to go about it though, since the sticker images themselves are rectangular. I could only think of trimming each sticker into hexagons, and then working out some HTML and CSS code that could make them into a Hexwall.

[federicomarini]

Yep, still sounds like a good idea to me even if it aged "lonely" 😄

The hexagons would actually simplify the things, we would simply have to "accept" a slightly irregular coverage of the note shape.