Kenny ParkMy daughter: "Everyone's so amazed that every snowflake's different, but no one cares that every potato is different."
Kevin Jardine@KennyPark it's the snowflake symmetry. Every snowflake crystal has 3 or 6-fold symmetry and yet they still have huge diversity. Much more surprising and beautiful than random potato lumps.
Lumpenpro@kevinjardine
Does the symmetry suggest that it would be more likely to have copies of snowflakes rather than unique patterns?
Trying to understand.
Does the symmetry suggest that it would be more likely to have copies of snowflakes rather than unique patterns?
Trying to understand.
@lumpenpro Symmetry suggests to me that there should only be a few designs as symmetry is a huge restriction. But miraculously there are still huge numbers of different designs, all beautiful because of the symmetry.