It's cute, but sneau is pronounced exactly as is snow, so the only phonetic difference from "snowflake" would be the short E instead of the long A. This is too close for clarity. Maybe even more important is, as rwg pointed out, that the name sought should refer to the (Hdim = log_7(9)) *boundary* of the 2D map-of-france shape. I haven't really seen a great suggestion for that yet. (One possibility: hexagone is French for hexagon. This word is also used to mean the shape of France on a map. The "gone" part could suggest the absence of its interior. But that wouldn't work for translation of the name into French. Ironically.) --Dan On May 31, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
Jim's suggestion of a Clouseauian "sneauflec" is cute.
Agreed. It's certainly preferable to my cumbersome name of "Cl(flowsnake) \ Int(Cl(flowsnake))".