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- alhirzelThis reminds me of the following, a story from my personal life. My wife and I both ski, and early in our relationship one of us told the other about the coolest poster ever about snowflakes. We each described it. We were sure we were talking about the same one - the one that graphed how snow changes over temperature and helped explain why it can feel so different. One of us pulled it up, and we realized, well...[1]: https://vermontsnowflakes.com/cdn/shop/products/Snowflake_Th...[2]: https://physics.montana.edu/demonstrations/video/1_mechanics...She was talking about #1 (the work of Bentley made into a collage), and I was talking about #2. It turned out to be a pretty good way of thinking about how imperfect communication is, and how hard it is to get on the same page about things that are even more important when all we have is words.
- jibalLove Elinor Merle's snowflake earrings.
- sreanOnce I had ended up with beautiful snowflakes and crystalline layers, entirely by accident.I had been washing a bowl in steaming hot water when I got interrupted. So, I did what everyone does when they cannot find an appropriate place for what they have on their hands.I slapped the empty steaming bowl shut (it came with an airtight lid), put it away in the freezer, the nearest thing that looked like a cabinet with a door, and promptly forgot about it.A few weeks later I found that both the bowl and the lid were covered with exquisite layers of crystals. I tried hard to photograph them, just did not come out right.I kept the crystals for many months.
- mpalmerThe retitling is a mess
- opelloAlso worth checking out the Veritasium video on snowflakes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE
- block_daggerThe headline does not match the article title and is currently nonsensical.
- deadbabeAre the design of snowflakes a thin slice of some 3D shape defined by a mathematical function?
- HelloUsername(2017)
- Forgeties79What a great Christmas post. The images are very impressive too!
- anonundefined
