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Snowflake-A-Thon 2005 — Outtakes

Below are some potential snowflakes that were left to accumulate on the drawing board. Besides not looking very much like snowflakes, they're also pretty scary looking. After a little more head-tapping and eye-squinting, I settled on a final snowflake design.

Outtake snowflake, looks more like a puffer fish


                    <<Graphics`Polyhedra`

                    <<Graphics`Shapes`

                    Show[

                        Graphics3D[

                            Stellate[Geodesate[

                                Cube[], 5], 15]], Boxed -> False, 

                        LightSources -> {{{1, 0, 1}, RGBColor[1, 0.4, 0.4]},

                            {{-1, 1, 1}, RGBColor[0.3, 1, 0.1]}, {{-1, -1, 1}, 

                            RGBColor[0.2, 0.2, 0.9]}},

                            DefaultColor -> RGBColor[0.5, 0.5, 0.5]];

                    Export["004.pdf",%,"PDF"];

Outtake snowflake, looks like an orange stuck in the garbage disposal


                    <<Graphics`Polyhedra`

                    <<Graphics`Shapes`

                    Show[

                       Graphics3D[

                          Partition[

                             Stellate[

                             Geodesate[

                                Icosahedron[],

                                15],

                             2.00],

                          675][[Range[11,20]]]],

                       Boxed->False,

                       ViewPoint->{0,1,2},

                       LightSources-> {

                          {{ 1, 0, 1},RGBColor[ 1, 0.4, 0.4]},

                          {{-1, 1, 1},RGBColor[0.3, 1, 1]},

                          {{-1,-1, 1},RGBColor[0.2, 0.2, 0.9]}},

                       DefaultColor->RGBColor[0.5,0.5,0.5]];

                    Export["003.pdf",%,"PDF"];