Showing posts with label snowflake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowflake. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Reiter snowflake growth model

The previous post's quick cellular automaton approach to snowflakes was a bit crude. For more realism (but still with a lot of oversimplification), I wrote code for the Reiter snowflake growth model. This is a "real-valued" cellular automaton (or a finite-differences evolution).


With some randomness, things look even more realistic: