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Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:55 pm
by Pyritie
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Snowflakes don't have pentagonal symmetry. They only have hexagonal symmetry, so this icon represents something that doesn't exist.

I'm aware this is extremely nitpicky but I figured it was better to at least post it instead of grumbling about it forever :D

Re: Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:58 am
by boskid
If frozen entities would be covered by snow that would mean there is water on aquilo.

Re: Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:30 pm
by Pyritie
You mean besides the thing you're building on? :P

I tried looking up any images of ammonia-based snowflakes but the closest I could find was this picture of carbon dioxide ones:
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(Source: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/Mars/4snowfla ... lakes.html )

But yeah, for clarity, my bug report is that the icon has 5 points when it should have 6 points for accuracy. 5-pointed snowflakes don't exist (at least that we know of)

Re: Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 4:02 pm
by Muche
Pyritie wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:55 pm [...] this icon represents something that doesn't exist.
The icon/symbol/alert for lightning Image also does not 100% represent how a lightning/electric dischage looks like Image

(Highway signs also do not 100% depict what they are informing/warning about. They are stylized, yet they convey their meaning just fine.)

Re: Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 5:16 pm
by computeraddict
boskid wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:58 am If frozen entities would be covered by snow that would mean there is water on aquilo.
Near as I can find, solid ammonia has tetrahedral symmetry. Also, there is water ice on Aquilo. The ocean when you pump it up and separate it is a solution of water ice in liquid ammonia.

Re: Frozen snowflake icon is wrong

Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:55 pm
by Pyritie
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