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A six pointed stylized hexagonal snowflake used for the Order of Canada (a national honor system) has come to symbolize Canadians' northern heritage and diversity. [ 35 ] In heraldry, the snowflake is a stylized charge .
Falling snow comprises ice crystals, growing in a hexagonal pattern and combining as snowflakes. [13] Ice crystals may be "any one of a number of macroscopic, crystalline forms in which ice appears, including hexagonal columns, hexagonal platelets, dendritic crystals, ice needles, and combinations of these forms". [14]
Snowflakes nucleate around particles in the atmosphere by attracting supercooled water droplets, which freeze in hexagonal-shaped crystals. Snowflakes take on a variety of shapes, basic among these are platelets, needles, columns, and rime. As snow accumulates into a snowpack, it may blow into drifts.
The hexagonal snowflake, a crystalline formation of ice, has intrigued people throughout history.This is a chronology of interest and research into snowflakes. Artists, philosophers, and scientists have wondered at their shape, recorded them by hand or in photographs, and attempted to recreate hexagonal snowflakes.
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An early classification of snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren. [2] Snow was described in China, as early as 135 BCE in Han Ying's book Disconnection, which contrasted the pentagonal symmetry of flowers with the hexagonal symmetry of snow. [3] Albertus Magnus proved what may be the earliest detailed European description of snow in 1250.
Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog weather watcher, was pulled from his warm burrow this morning and saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter.. Each February 2, on Groundhog Day ...
Sierpinski Hexagon: Built in the manner of the Sierpinski carpet, on an hexagonal grid, with 6 similitudes of ratio 1/3. The Koch snowflake is present at all scales. (+) 1.6379: Fibonacci word fractal: Fractal based on the Fibonacci word (or Rabbit sequence) Sloane A005614.