Scenes · Study 080
Snow Village
Snow falls over a cabin, pines and rolling hills. Three depths of flakes drift on a wind you steer with your pointer, and smoke rises from the chimney.
What you're looking at
Three hundred and twenty flakes each have a depth. Near flakes are larger, brighter and fall faster. Far ones are small and slow. Each also sways on its own phase, so no two follow the same path. The wind is a single number added to every flake's sideways speed, scaled by depth.
The idea behind it
Real snowflakes fall slowly, typically around one metre per second, because they are so light for their surface area. That is why they follow every eddy of the air and why a snowfall shows the wind's structure in a way rain does not.
Try this
Move the pointer left or right to turn the wind. The flakes and the chimney smoke lean with it.
