Code Golf: Beehive

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Published on 2009-10-08T19:50:12Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 16:12 UTC
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The challenge

The shortest code by character count that will generate a beehive from user input.

A beehive is defined a a grid of hexagons in a size inputted by the user as two positive numbers greater than zero (no need to validate input). The first number (W) represents the width of the beehive - or - how many hexagons are on each row. The second number (H) represents the height of the beehive - or - how many hexagons are on each column.

A Single hexagon is made from three ASCII characters: _, / and \, and three lines:

 __
/  \
\__/

Hexagons complete each other: the first column of the beehive will be 'low', and the second will be high - alternating and repeating in the same pattern forming W hexagons. This will be repeated H times to form a total of WxH hexagons.

Test cases:

Input:
	1 1
Output:
	 __
	/  \
	\__/

Input:
	4 2
Output:
	    __    __
	 __/  \__/  \
	/  \__/  \__/
	\__/  \__/  \
	/  \__/  \__/
	\__/  \__/

Input:
	2 5
Output:
	    __ 
	 __/  \
	/  \__/
	\__/  \
	/  \__/
	\__/  \
	/  \__/
	\__/  \
	/  \__/
	\__/  \
	/  \__/
	\__/

Input:
	11 3
Output:
	    __    __    __    __    __
	 __/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__
	/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \
	\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/
	/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \
	\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/
	/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \
	\__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \__/

Code count includes input/output (i.e full program).

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