Snowflakes

[laurent_delrieu]

Here is a rendered view (-viewcapturetoclipboard of rendered view of Rhino 6) of my new snow crystal growth on mesh.

See

SnowCrystalGrowth.pdf

http://www.entagma.com/creating-a-procedural-snowflake/#more-1094

Render with V-ray3.4

Alpha = 1
Beta = 0.3
Gamma =0.0001
5000 iterations
Sphere mesh with ~320 000 faces

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Another rendered View inside Rhino 6

Now a sphere with 1.2 million of faces
Alpha = 1
Beta = 0.35
Gamma = 0.001
5000 iterations
It took 17 minutes to calculate.

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Continuing to play with Snowflakes

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Some improvements on the mesh, now watertight and smoothened via Catmull&Clack subdivision.
Rendered with standard Rhino render view and -viewCaptureToClipboard

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Merry Christmas