Majestic crystal, black version

by Alexey Kljatov

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Majestic crystal, black version

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Alexey Kljatov

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This is very big, real snowflake of fernlike dendrite type, around 8 millimeters from tip to tip.

Fernlike dendrites are interesting snow crystals. If you ever seen the snow, then you probably seen them, too: this is common and very large snowflakes. Usually they are so big, that we can see all their details with naked eye, especially if we look at them on dark background (for good contrast). Many "traditional" snowflakes, which are painted by artists and modelled by 3D designers, remind fernlike dendrite crystals.

Fernlike dendrites are pretty similar to stellar dendrite snowflakes, but with more complex and chaotic structure: usually they have more side branches and icy leaves on them, and these small details are not strictly symmetrical on different arms, and even on opposite sides of same arm. Maybe this asymmetry caused by large size of fernlike dendrite: often they can be whole centimeter from tip to tip and even bigger! Because crystal is big, changes in air temperature and humidity on it's oppposite sides is not so perfectly synchronous, as on sides of smaller and simplier snowflakes, and this causes slightly asymmetrical growth of arms.

Usually these crystals have very small center, but long, large and massive arms, and these crystals are very fragile. Often we can see these snowflakes with broken arms, or even single arms, fallen from the sky: it seems that this is results of collisions in the air.

This version is post-processing of real snowflake photo, captured on bright gradient background. Snowflake was transferred to pure black with corrected contrast and colors.

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February 7th, 2016

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