n-Flakes

Attractive snowflake-like designs can be created by iteratively arranging -gons around an initial -gon. A famous example of such a construction is the pentaflake, which was first noticed by Albrecht Dürer. This Demonstration allows you to experiment with several different types of -flakes. The "scale factor" slider only affects -flakes of the type "variation 2" and controls the relative size of the secondary -gons.