{"id":2195,"date":"2012-10-02T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T08:18:57","slug":"artificial-snow-flakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/02\/artificial-snow-flakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial snow flakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> David Griffeath (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Janko Gravner (University of California, Davis) have a computer model based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diffusion-limited_aggregation\" title=\"wiki\" target=\"_blank\">diffusion-limited aggregation<\/a> that can simulate snowflakes. Their images look very real and demonstrate the wide variety of snowflakes found in nature. <\/p>\n<p>Below are some of their snowflakes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathimagery\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/snowflake-1.jpg\" alt=\"model1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathimagery\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/snowflake-2.jpg\" alt=\"model2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathimagery\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/snowflake-6.jpg\" alt=\"model6\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathimagery\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/snowflake-13.jpg\" alt=\"model13\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A PDF slideshow of 40 such snowflakes can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/psoup.math.wisc.edu\/pub\/Snowfakes.pdf\" title=\"slideshow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psoup.math.wisc.edu\/Snowfakes.htm\" title=\"snowflakes\" target=\"_blank\">Gravner-Griffeath Snowfakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathimagery\/thumbnails.php?album=25\" title=\"AMS Imagery\" target=\"_blank\">AMS Mathematical Imagery<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: A PDF slideshow of 40 such snowflakes can be found &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/02\/artificial-snow-flakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artificial snow flakes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}