Snowflakes, Snowfakes, and Boy Am I In Trouble Again

Sitting here watching my wife shovel snow, I'm wondering why Janko Gravner, a mathematics professor at the University of California-Davis, and David Griffeath, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, went to all of the trouble of simulating 3-dimensional snowflakes (they call them "snowfakes") when there's plenty of the real stuff being shoveled outside.



January 18, 2008
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