Distractions and amusements, with a sandwich and coffee.
Art is science 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 light flurries, snowflake families and individual flakes. There are many unusual snowflakes and snowflake family 12 and family 46 are very interesting.
Show a random flake or a random flake from this family.
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.
These are the original simulation images. Each snowflake was grown on a 800 × 800 hexagonal grid.