animated SnowFlakes creation

[flocoon]

Hi all,

i'm 3d "artist", and i would like making an animation,  a single ice cristal formation,  ( growing from a core sphere to a complete hexagonal ice cristal )
obviously it's something around a simple koch formula, and.. i cant see any koch fractals in 3dmandelbulb !?
please dudes, have you some advices for me ? a startup scene ? another soft ? 

thanks,

FlocOOn

[Softology]

I did some snowflake growth simulations in the past based on these

http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Snowfakes.htm

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=EE43940F8105ED091E1E1023FBB9B776?doi=10.1.1.86.1469&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Would a 2D series of images be enough for you to import and 3D extrude?  If so then you can generate frames/images/movies like this one

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kEWYVCbOskQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kEWYVCbOskQ&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

from Visions of Chaos and import them.

Jason.

[flocoon]

hi Jason,

thanks, nice references, it's a good starting point, i can use 2D pictures and use them as displacement on a 3D grid.. symmetry on Y .. and i got it

i'm also trying 'Substance' , good 3D exporter .. but hard to parametrize a simple koch flake

Thanks,