Hexagons sometimes occur in nature as a result of heat dissipation patterns, like basalt columns when they cool, and oil when heated on an extremely uniform fl

Hexagons sometimes occur in nature as a result of heat dissipation patterns, like basalt columns when they cool, and oil when heated on an extremely uniform flat surface forms into a honeycomb like pattern of hexagons. I think those usually don't happen as a single shape though, rather when there is crowding of material and it finding optimal entropy path, you end up with a bunch of them. Could it be a related phenomena?