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How to determine what hexes are in an area bounded by 3 hexes

I've been searching for hex grid algorithms for a while now, but I'm not having much luck. I'm working on a game that will be using hex grids for the board. There seems to be sufficient resources to ...
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Get ring of tiles in hexagon grid

Thanks to this post I'm able to collect adjacent tiles to a given tile. But I'm pretty much stuck on an algorithm that gives me only a "ring" of tiles specified by an offset. The algorithm given in ...
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Is it better to hard code data or find an algorithm?

I've been working on a boardgame that has a hex grid as this board: Since the board will never change and the spaces on the board will always be linked to the same other spaces around it, should I ...
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Drawing an outline around an arbitrary group of hexagons

Is there an algorithm for drawing an outline around around an arbitrary group of hexagons? The polygon outline drawn may be concave. See the images below, the green line is what I am trying to ...