Snowflakes
I like making paper snowflakes. Here are some of the ones I've actually scanned for your benefit. Snowflakes, after being ordered by type, are ordered by upload date[1].
In nature, snowflakes come in several varieties—six-sided symmetry, with occasional three- and twelve-sided symmetries (although the latter, on closer inspection, are often actually only six-fold symmetric). Within each arm of symmetry, there is bilateral symmetry. All too often I see paper "snowflakes" with eight or (worse) four or two sides. These cuttings might have merit for some, but at least for me, snowflakes should have at least six sides, and preferably not a large number or a power of two. It just looks more interesting that way. There is, however, a short section here dedicated to seven-sided "snowflakes", which, as far as I can tell, do not occur in nature.
Many of these snowflakes were made in undergrad, and were insufficiently attached to my dorm room door; unimaginative staff apparently decided that anything on the floor is trash. Some of these snowflakes exist only here in these high-resolution scans[2]. Click on them to embiggen.
For more about making snowflakes, you may enjoy my (unsupported) Python project that generates them.
Six-Sided Snowflakes
Snowflake #1
Snowflake #2
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Snowflake #8
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Snowflake #12
Snowflake #13
