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It's Snowing in my CPU — a Snowflake catalogue

The snowflake was born on a cold, winter's day far up in the sky, many miles above earth.
— Paul Gallico, Snowflake

Go ahead, meet some snowflakes.

suedina
jonsie
micka
micheel
gradlo
mizsy
sunetta

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!

Ad blockers may interfere with some flake images—the names of flakes can trigger ad filters.

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.

snowflake darrill

name darrill
gender boy
family 16
hex 36, 17
t-SNE 152.4, 61.0

ρ vapor mass 0.6325932837 1.06   87%
κ freezing 0.0203740043 1.10   82%
μ melting 0.0098961325 –1.38   7%
γ melting 0.0000950191 1.43   92%
α attachment 0.0281614346 –1.54   7%
β attachment 1.3329318183 0.49   78%
θ attachment 0.0151410120 –0.87   20%
n growth steps 4271 –0.70   26%

The flake's ranking relative to other flakes with respect to each parameter is shown as a z-score (`(x-\mu)/\sigma`) and percentile.

snowflake files and resources

Download the snowflake's runfile.

Generate STL file for 3D printing.

high-resolution snowflake images

These are the original simulation images. Each snowflake was grown on a 800 × 800 hexagonal grid.

cartesian grid


hex grid


cartesian grid with vapor


hex grid with vapor


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