http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/141960-An-Easy-Snowflake-Fractal-Curve en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:20:57 GMT Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:20:57 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, An easy snowflake fractal curve http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/141960-An-Easy-Snowflake-Fractal-Curve http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/141960-An-Easy-Snowflake-Fractal-Curve?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:An easy snowflake fractal curve:Comments#comment142090 <p>Carl, did you intend to add the option to disable adaptive plotting, so as to strictly enforce the numpoints value?</p> <p>If not, then as written the code took my Win7 16.02 about 35sec, and produced about 125000 value points. There's nothing wrong with that many points per se (if that's what you wanted), but it does become an example which can be sped up. If it's as intended then I wouldn't mind adding it as an example in a post I'm working on...</p> <!--break--> <p>acer</p> The latest comments added to the Post, An easy snowflake fractal curve 142090 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:17:27 Z acer acer http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/141960-An-Easy-Snowflake-Fractal-Curve?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:An easy snowflake fractal curve:Comments#comment142094 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/141960-An-Easy-Snowflake-Fractal-Curve#comment142090">@acer</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>With <strong>adaptive</strong> set to <strong>false</strong>, the plot lacks the rich detail I want unless <strong>numpoints </strong>is set to <strong>2^15 </strong>or greater. This is a single closed curve plotted in a single color, so all the action is on the boundary (the whole thing is its boundary). I'm willing to cut back to <strong>numpoints= 2^12, adaptive= 4</strong>. A little time can be saved, without significantly impacting quality, by truncating the series at 9 terms (<strong>N=8) </strong>rather than the 17 terms I used above<strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>Go ahead and use it as an example, and give me credit for the X and Y functions. You could use <strong>2^15</strong> evenly spaced points and do it very quickly in <strong>evalhf</strong>.</p> <p>Here is a much larger jpeg showing more detail. This is with <strong>N=8</strong>, <strong>numpoints= 2^12, adaptive= 4</strong>. Blow it up and see how the inner curlicues look like flowers.</p> <p><a href="/view.aspx?sf=142094/451229/snowflake2.jpg"><img src="/view.aspx?sf=142094/451229/snowflake2.jpg" alt=""></a></p> The latest comments added to the Post, An easy snowflake fractal curve 142094 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:34:40 Z Carl Love Carl Love