It's Snowing in my CPU — a Snowflake catalogue
Now she was round and as pure as the morning light, crystal clear and like a tiny silver mirror she was able to catch and give back every colour in the world about her.
— Paul Gallico, Snowflake
Go ahead, meet some snowflakes.
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.
snowflake ellna
name
ellna
gender
girl
family
8
hex
8, 36
t-SNE
31.7, 129.1
ρ
vapor mass
0.5992827099
0.59
64%
κ
freezing
0.0106857238
–0.24
44%
μ
melting
0.0621327978
–0.08
50%
γ
melting
0.0000612675
–1.07
19%
α
attachment
0.1219517191
–0.62
32%
β
attachment
1.2419828138
–0.01
64%
θ
attachment
0.0134492082
–0.91
17%
n
growth steps
5040
–0.60
34%
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
