pouët.net

http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/snowflakes/

Realtime snowflakes anyone? I never thought it was worth it, but now I found this. It must be possible in real time as well.

Nice, seems they published a lot about it:

http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Snowfakes.htm
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~gravner/
http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/thumbnails.php?album=25

myssy was doing that

It should be pretty obvious how to precalc half an arm of the snowflake, and skew and mirror to the texture to create the whole arm, then iterate through how many arms you want (6 seems to be pretty common) - apart from a long-ish precalc time, this should be pretty fast to render while still using quite minimal amounts of memory - or am I missing something?

Patson forgot to include BASS¡!