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The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (2017) (openculture.com)
84 points by _____k 13 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments




Once I had ended up with beautiful snowflakes and crystalline layers, entirely by accident.

I had been washing a bowl in steaming hot water when I got interrupted. So, I did what everyone does when they cannot find an appropriate place for what they have on their hands.

I slapped the empty steaming bowl shut (it came with an airtight lid), put it away in the freezer, the nearest thing that looked like a cabinet with a door, and promptly forgot about it.

A few weeks later I found that both the bowl and the lid were covered with exquisite layers of crystals. I tried hard to photograph them, just did not come out right.

I kept the crystals for many months.


Also worth checking out the Veritasium video on snowflakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE


The retitling is a mess

The headline does not match the article title and is currently nonsensical.

I might have said that I didn't realize snowflakes took photographs, but it turns out to be the work of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, so I guess in this case, they do.

I think I see your reading, but I'd add an apostrophe:

The First Photographs of Snowflake's Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography

i.e. the first photographs on Snowflake's part. Though that still doesn't resolve how a guy's pictures discovered microphotography, rather than the guy himself.


Enforcement of character limit for the header got it place. I did not want to alter it too much either.

The article title is written as a title and subtitle, separated by a colon.

So the correct title of the article is 'The First Photographs of Snowflakes'.


Oh yes, it looks like I missed the colon during the edit.

Are the design of snowflakes a thin slice of some 3D shape defined by a mathematical function?

The tetrahedral shape of the molecules define the 6 sides. I believe that would be a constant.

Temperature, moisture, pressure and maybe more variables are the parameters.


(2017)

(1885)

What a great Christmas post. The images are very impressive too!



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