Draw in just one section and create a snowflake pattern
Draw freely inside the circle below with your finger (or mouse). The lines you draw are automatically rotated and reflected into the other sections. This is the principle behind the patterns you see in snowflakes and kaleidoscopes.
Types of symmetry:Rotational symmetry repeats the drawing by rotating it around the center (n-fold symmetry), while mirror symmetry flips it once more from side to side within each section. Turning both on makes the pattern twice as dense.
Number of rotational sections8
💡 In mathematics, the full set of symmetry rules that creates these patterns is called the dihedral group. Real snowflakes have hexagonal symmetry (6-fold rotation + reflection) because of the angles at which water molecules bond.