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❄️ Snowflake Dendritic Growth

3D snow crystal growth chamber: a Reiter-type hexagonal cellular automaton with temperature and supersaturation from the Nakaya diagram grows plates, columns, needles and branched dendrites as 3D ice prisms.

Chemistry & Materials3DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender❄️ Ice & Cold ⇄ 2D version

⚙ Under the hood

A hexagonal diffusion-limited cellular automaton grows an ice crystal as 3D prisms in a Blender-built growth chamber, switching between plates, columns, needles and dendrites as temperature and supersaturation move across the Nakaya diagram.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install