Snowflake

Draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Language:
  • English, Finnish, Swedish
  • Publisher Name:
  • GoWEB
  • File Size:
  • 600 kB zipped

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Snowflake Description

The Snowflake application was developed to be a small tool that will allow you to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. The initial shape is an overall hexagon, which is generated by taking the editable slice-- highlighted here and when you start the program-- and reflecting and rotating it to complete the full pattern of the snowflake. Within the editable slice, you can also see three highlighted control points that can be dragged around. There is control point at every vertex and at the midpoint of every line segment between two vertices. If you drag a control point that is the midpoint of a line segment, it turns that control point into a new vertex. That new vertex also gets new control points at the midpoints to its neighbors. The two "initial" vertices (from the hexagon) are constrained to stay along their respective radial lines. Every other control point and new vertex can be dragged where ever you like. At the lower left corner of the window is a "Clear" button that erases your snowflake and restores the initial hexagon. The "Save" button on the other side saves your snowflake as a PDF file. The file is automatically saved in the same folder as the snowflake program, under file name snowflake-####.pdf, where #### is a number.


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