"Him" being Kenneth Libbrecht, co-author of the mentioned study. Jostein
2009/12/5 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: > Here's one I caught with *istD in 2006: > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-188 > I wrote him and queried about it. While quite elusive back then, he > was already on to the idea. And it's not really surprising. What > doesn't appear in that article, though, is how early in the life of > the crystal this priming for shape takes place. I have another pic > that shows triangular growth patterns from the first one tenth of a > mm. So whatever property the growing substrate has that tricks the > crystal into triangular growth, it must be happening at the very > conception. > > Jostein > > > 2009/12/3 Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]>: >> Elusive triangular snowflakes explained : >> >> http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50212/description/Elusive_triangular_snowflakes_explained >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

