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Post by Pincho Paxton on Jul 31, 2015 9:10:30 GMT
Link... Nature has more than one way to grow a crystalPincho says... I remember when I wrote my snowflake simulator that all of the other snowflake simulators had complex maths, and all that I did was move a bunch of hexagons closer together, I got a perfect snowflake from simple rules. I used a push gravity that flowed through hexagons. Since that time I have figured out that a 3D kissing Number problem has a hexagon for the 2D central position, and then two triangles top, and bottom. If you make the X/Z a hexagon, and the 'Y' axis a straight line you get the propagation shapes. Then you can tilt X/Z to point Y in different direction for crystal growth. Temperature alters two other directions In/Out which can enlarge X/Y/Z propagation, and create more speed. I think that a crystal may look complicated, but the physics are really simple if you can get them exactly right. Pincho Paxton
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