Mereni wrote:22 tile spacing IS enough if you're doing a square configuration of braziers. The most efficient though, is a diamond shape. For that you want 23 space gap on the short axis and 39 square gap on the long axis to get a far enough spacing on the diagonal.
Ok, thank you Mereni, that was very helpful.
When I was thinking of laying out braziers in hexagonal close packing, I realized that in order to make proper triangles you'd need to use odd spacing, but the symmetry of the square base I just finished laying out demanded an even number of tiles.