Snowflakes

A little cellular automata simulation for snowflakes based on C.A. Reiter (2005) I made to play with Rust graphics libraries.

Running

By default it works with winit. To build for WASM you can use:

  cargo run --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
  wasm-server-runner path/to/file.wasm

References

• Clifford A. Reiter, A local cellular model for snow crystal growth (2005), doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2004.06.071
• parasyte/pixels Examples for pixels
• wgpu.rs
• Alaskan FX, Growing Snowflakes with a Cellular Automata (2026), YouTube: youtu.be/qePG9J_Lfz0