Fig. 386. §23 Tiny World
Snowflake
A snowflake starts high in a cloud, when water vapor deposits as ice onto a tiny speck of dust and grows into an ice crystal.
1Facts
- Shelf
- Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
2How to play
Tap to melt it and grow a new flake. Pick the kind of crystal in the Splash tab.
3Its controls
Table I. Every control on this Splash.
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grow a new flake | Tap | ||
| Regrow | Button | ||
| Crystal | List | 4 choices | Stellar dendrite |
| Variant | Setting |
4About it
A snowflake starts high in a cloud, when water vapor deposits as ice onto a tiny speck of dust and grows into an ice crystal. It has six sides because of the way water molecules fit together as they freeze. How cold and damp the air is decides its shape, from simple plates to feathery stars.
Tap it and the arms melt back to the middle, then a new flake grows out, a new pattern each time. In the Splash tab, pick the kind of crystal. In 1885 Wilson Bentley became the first person to photograph a single snowflake.
5Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,986 at Low, and up to 940,000 at Max
6Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
