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Frost Patterns Simulator (2D)

Interactive 2D frost-growth simulator: watch dendritic ice crystals spread across a cold windowpane with six-fold hexagonal symmetry, and control how they branch with temperature and humidity.

Physics & Mechanics2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
2d-3d-frost-patterns ↗ Open standalone

This 2D simulator recreates the frost lace that forms on a cold windowpane on a winter night: click anywhere on the glass to plant a nucleation point, and watch six-fold symmetric dendritic ice crystals spread outward as water vapor diffuses in and freezes onto the growing tips. Lower the temperature to push the crystals toward fine, feathery side-branching, or raise the humidity to feed the tips more vapor and speed up the whole pane's coverage, while the live readout tracks how much of the window has frosted over.

⚙ Under the hood

Click a cold windowpane to seed dendritic ice crystals that spread with six-fold hexagonal symmetry, and control their branching with temperature and humidity sliders.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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