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Man and Beast 01: Constitutional Characters. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only coprime radial pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Reiniger wrote on Sat, Jan 11 04:35 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Fri Jan 10 09:12 PM:

BTW, isn't it possible to cut through a cubic lattice so that you get hexagons (in a plane perpendicular to a body diagonal)?

Yep:

Hexagonal slice of a cube

The relationship between hexagonal and cubic grids runs deeper, and in that sense hex bishops do correspond to unicorns. See e.g. https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/#coordinates-cube