Nice. The first sample looks kind of like a spider chart, but easier to read. The grid layout also kind of reminds me of a flamegraph. Items (servers, site pages, assets, PCR machines, factory equipment) could be rendered with the 6 corners of hexagons representing machine status, making it easy to read the health of a whole system at a glance.
Are there any public examples of those hexagons being used in practice? I spent a minute or two clicking around the SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks site but didn't run into any hexagons.
Not public, our production and sandbox instances are behind passwords. Exactly flame-graph like use. We use a somewhat updated version of the first pic as a hub for tracking images that are being processed, i.e. fully colored is done. We use single hexes as quick indicators of digitization/record completeness. Our collaborators want more, they want to use versions to filter results etc.
I should update the images on the repo with some more demos. There are some nice ways to order the hexes by simple Ruby sorts, different layouts, etc. You can get spiral layouts with complete records to the center, etc. I have used it as a toy library to play with quilt (fabric) prototyping for my sig other too, less flashy, but fun.
Are there any public examples of those hexagons being used in practice? I spent a minute or two clicking around the SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks site but didn't run into any hexagons.