I love seeing all the different classifications scientists have devised for real snowflakes based on the shape, but there isn't much overlap between their categories and the ones below.  Theirs are science; these are art.  

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ASTERISK

DANDELION

HALO

HEXAGON

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TREFOIL

WHEEL

CTHULOID

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Using the Designs in the Gallery As Templates

Two smaller images accompany each snowflake in the gallery.  At the top right is a photo of the cut blank.  Below that, is a graphic showing the type of blank from which it was cut.  This is done to help viewers visualize the cuts they'll need to make in their blank to cut that snowflake.

For clarity's sake, let's look at some examples.  To the right of each of the examples below, you'll find the blank superimposed over a blank of the appropriate size.  In a perfect world I'd have the time to do this for every picture in the gallery.

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All you need to do is visualize it, sketch in the lines on your blank, and cut away everything but the white part.

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For patterns with the "30⁰,60⁰" tag, the blank is folded into 30⁰ and some of the features are cut.  Then it's unfolded to 60⁰ and the rest of the cuts are made.  Here's an example:

Here, we see a cut 60⁰ blank with the "30⁰, 60⁰" tag.

Openings in the interior of the 60⁰ blank and symmetrical features were likely cut when it was folded in half. In this case, it's the highlighted area.

Here's a really bad graphic showing the features to be cut on a 30⁰ blank (the highlighted area), along with the blank I cut.

Unfold the blank to 60⁰. The outright terrible graphic shows what you'll be cutting (the highlighted area). Once you've cut away everything but the white (and gray), you'll be done.

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Whether I've overexplained this concept (which you understood intuitively the instant you saw the graphic) or whether I've utterly failed to explain anything, the important thing is that we still have this fascinating snowflake that looks for all the world like a lovely flower.

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