Art is scence in love.
— E.F. Weisslitz
Somewhere in the world, it's snowing. But you don't need to go far—it's always snowing on this page. Explore random flurries, snowflake families and individual flakes. There are many unusual snowflakes and snowflake family 12 and family 46 are very interesting.
But don't settle for only pixel snowflakes—make an STL file and 3D print your own flakes!
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And if after reading about my flakes you want more, get your frozen fix with Kenneth Libbrecht's excellent work and Paul Gallico's Snowflake.
Show a random flake or a random flake from this family.
This is the example snowflake used in In Silico Flurries: Computing the world of snow.
The flake's ranking relative to other flakes with respect to each parameter is shown as a z-score (`(x-\mu)/\sigma`) and percentile.
Download the snowflake's runfile.
Generate STL file for 3D printing.
These are the original simulation images. Each snowflake was grown on a 800 × 800 hexagonal grid.