Artificial snow flakes

David Griffeath (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Janko Gravner (University of California, Davis) have a computer model based on diffusion-limited aggregation that can simulate snowflakes. Their images look very real and demonstrate the wide variety of snowflakes found in nature.

Below are some of their snowflakes:

model1

model2

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model13

A PDF slideshow of 40 such snowflakes can be found here.

Links

Gravner-Griffeath Snowfakes

AMS Mathematical Imagery