There are many companies (and government agencies like NASA) that do a lot of high-end 3D visualization and processing on linux. Having one of these desktops would be nice in one of those environments.
I would love to read a technical discussion about the structure of these snowflakes. There seems to be something about hexagonal shapes that mother nature likes. You see them in several of the images. These images are stunning (to me anyway)!
I live in the area, but am unable to attend. I'd also like to watch a recording. Is there a cheap / easy way to do this? If there is enough interest, could someone attempt to record it?
Can you explain in just a bit more detail how you did this? This sounds really neat. I faced a problem like this a while ago, but luckily the file was still open in emacs (and in an emacs buffer), so I just re-wrote it back to disk.