BrendanDec 22 2009 5:32 PM
A fascinating post! Thanks for pointing this out to me...how I\'m gonna have to look for it all around me :D
Stephanie HornDec 22 2009 6:37 PM
What a great post! I never realized how ubiquitous this particular snowflake has become. I\'d have to say that while Zapf\'s icon is beautiful in its simplicity, it would do us designers some good to cast aside our comfort and try something new.
PeteskiDec 23 2009 11:23 AM
Unless scientists have examined allthe snowflakes (ever) , \"no two snowflakes are alike\" is a theory, and a not very convincing one.
Merry Happy!David LeggettDec 23 2009 12:04 PM
This was a very insightful post, and a great way to start the morning. Way to make something trivial (to me at least) so darn interesting :)
darkynDec 23 2009 12:47 PM
This is actually a much more complex question as shown here: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/alike/alike.htm
RyanDec 23 2009 10:42 PM
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JoshDec 26 2009 5:09 PM
I really never took much notice to the snowflake similarity but it\'s pretty surprising how popular that one design has become. Great read.
AdamDec 27 2009 9:27 PM
Wow! Great article on snowflake typography. Really interesting!
RichieDec 27 2009 9:45 PM
Amazing article.... nature can be so intricate and creative... with such amazing attention to detail..
VanessaDec 27 2009 9:54 PM
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Emory AllenDec 28 2009 11:38 PM
Nice article! It seems that whenever I design a snowflake, they always start similar to the Zapf version. I never knew why; it has seeped into my subconscious because it\'s everywhere!
HonneykeepaDec 29 2009 1:09 PM
I think the spread of Zapf\'s snowflake is obvious. Comparing to another one\'s presented here, it has more uniform shape and lines and negative space is pretty balanced.
paul deanJan 20 2010 11:33 AM
“Matching snow crystals were discovered in Wisconsin in 1988. The crystals were not flakes in the usual sense but rather hollow hexagonal prisms.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnowflakemichaelJan 21 2010 9:27 AM
As boring as it may be ice will always form in groups of 3.
With the normal outcome being a 6 sided shape, I guess there can be snowflakes of 3 or 9 sides but almost all will have 6Its because of the way the molecular structure for h20 constructs itself, so while a snowflake can have any shape remember to still but 6 sides on it :)PatrickJan 22 2010 11:27 AM
Great post! I actually just finished work on a project that played up some of these exact issues. It\'s a flash \'game\' that actually lets people make their own flake... and as you might expect, no two have yet been alike.
For anyone interested:
www.snowflakeworkshop.comHarry StyrisFeb 3 2010 6:55 AM
I love to see kids make snowflakes out of coffee filters or circular paper out of these more unique classifications. If one just tears his up, he\'ll still get an A for making the irregulars snowflake.
FrancescoMar 10 2010 12:32 PM
this is the kind of article should be made any blog, not just re-tweeting, re-blogging etc.. keep up the good work!