I don't know, but its probably like a cellular automata on a hexagonal 2d plane (like wolfram 'new kind of science' stuff). I wonder why they're flat/ not 3d- I

I don't know, but its probably like a cellular automata on a hexagonal 2d plane (like wolfram 'new kind of science' stuff). I wonder why they're flat/ not 3d- I guess something do do with falling and air resistance. I wonder what role initial conditions or randomness while developing play in the wide variety of unique snowflake designs. If randomness while developing has much to do with it, it seems like the 'limbs' of 1 snowflake should develope differently. Doesn't seem like there'd be that many combinations at the initial molecular level to support that many designs.