The Wacky Snowflake Grower In Action
(Ignore that little window that just opened.  It spits out the data we need, described in the "Results" section)



 

Instructions: You can hit "Grow" to see the flake grow really fast, or "Grow Slowly" to see the algorithm in action. 

Description:  Notice that the points of the initial hexagonal seed tend to grow more quickly than the edges.  This is a demonstration of why the flake grows with six-fold symmetry, described more fully in the "Diffusion" section of the page.

Source Code:  Here's our  source code:  we modified it from the original code, which can be found at [3] on our links page.  Thanks to Lam Chi-Hang for making his original source code available for modification!  Note his copyright in the source code, please.

MAIN PAGE    SNOWFLAKE SHAPES   DIFFUSION

OUR SPIFFY MODEL OF DENDRITIC GROWTH

OUR HOT APPLET OF DENDRITIC GROWTH

THE RESULTS OF OUR HOT APPLET OF DENDRITIC GROWTH

LINKS