Over 5,000 plates captured between 1885 and 1931 — each a unique hexagonal lattice on black velvet.
Water molecules bond at 120°, encoding the hexagonal template at the atomic scale before crystals ever grow.
At −15°C thin plates form. Below −25°C hollow columns emerge. Between them, stellar dendrites branch widest.
Each primary arm spawns secondary dendrites at 60° intervals — the whole crystal echoed in every fragment.