Snowflake Factory by j_brad

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

New Version:
V9 : 3D snowflakes, better textflake algorithm. (1/1/2021)
V8 : Original version (deleted) (12/25/2020)
Another Snowflake generator based on OpenSCad, but this one pulls out all the stops. Besides the basic parameters like size, thickness, and random seeds, there are over 35 parameters that you can twiddle with (5 sided snowflakes anyone?), generating billions of billions of unique shapes, There's also an experimental 'textFlake' mode where you can make designs out of short text string(). Finally, it can generate 3D snowflakes constructed from multiple 2D flakes generated together.
By default, it can generate hanger holes on the snowflakes, It's also able to fill your build plate with an entire blizzard of different flakes an the same run.
Given the fun of this is generating the flakes to begin with, it doesn't make sense to provide any .stl files. Rather, only the OpenSCad .scad file is provided. I did try to group and document the parameters so that you can use the Customizer, but these designs can take a long time to generate and may time out the server.
It's therefore highly recommended you install OpenSCad (http://www.openscad.org/) on your machine and run the program on it. The customizer is far far more responsive there, and you'll have a LOT more fun playing with parameters or even altering the code.
Note the code is highly commented, with lots of hints on what good parameters are and how they interact. with each other. Hopefully it makes sense.
Note if the random seed is 0, it generates a different design each run, Set to a fixed number if you are twiddling with other parameters.