Snowflake physics

[Trapezium Artist]

Judging from the comments posted after the following Grauniad article, there's a chance that some of you won't feel as strongly about the issue of non-hexagonal snowflakes as do I and the German professor:

//http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/23/christmas-card-snowflakes-nature-physics

Or do you?

They are a thing of beauty indeed (just one of many from //http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/):

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Then again, I've grown accustomed to the non-physical five-pointed variant used here, so does that make me a hypocrite?  :shock:

[johninblack]

Then again, I've grown accustomed to the non-physical five-pointed variant used here, so does that make me a hypocrite?  :shock:

Probably. but aren't we all in some way or another? Very lovely picture by the way.

[catherine]

TA, if I knew where I could find it, I'd refer you to some posts I made a while back on the old Frost* forum, with my materials scientist/crystallographer's hat on.

[MikeEvs]

TA, if I knew where I could find it, I'd refer you to some posts I made a while back on the old Frost* forum, with my materials scientist/crystallographer's hat on.

This is the post your looking for I think: http://frost.informe.com/viewtopic.php?p=30354#30354