This is a Photo of the Thermal Protection Tiles on the Wing Of Elon Musks Starship From : NasaSpaceFlight.com @13:17 - ish Anyone Recognise that texture!!
And here we see the heat shield tiles on one of the old Space Shuttles. They opted for a square style rather than a hex-shaped tile, because they didn't have Elon Musk money to make them fancy.
LOL! True dat. All those brilliant scientists and they couldn't figure out you could use Hex? But they could figure out odd sizes and shapes for the curved areas ...
uuhmm technically -- The big problem with the space shuttle was that the Tiles were too fancy (sort of quoting the angry astronaut here) - but apparantly due to the Shaping of the Shuttle they ended up having many many individual tiles which were specialised for every part of the craft -- Elon has , due to his simple shape managed to reduce the unique tile count to maybe a dozen (i.m guessing here) from many hundreds on the space shuttle !!! - uhh think it was either angry astronaut or everyday astronaut that went through this recently on their youtube channels.. Anyway Eleon hasn;t gotted a square tile pattern texture but instead a much maligned hex tile structure to use on your creations - sort of presciently presaging the starheeep...