Chris Huff wrote:

> Umm, hexagon is, well, hexagonal. And both hexagon and the ordinary
> checkers are "striped". It is very possible he *wants* a striped pattern
> of squares with more than one color.

Yes it is. I was just saying eww IMHO. :)
Hexagon has no two cells of the same color touching, even just by a corner.
As for regular checker, it sort of has diagonal stripes, but those stripes
are not isolated so they don't stick out. :)

> BTW, I have been thinking about some possible new patterns:
> random_checkers, random_hexagons, etc...they would take a list of any
> number of items and choose one of them for each tile. Also, replace the
> old "tiles" pattern(which isn't used any more) with a new one that lets
> you specify any number of items and the offset for each row.
> What do you think?

Sure

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