A gasket construction of the Koch snowflake and variations

We introduce a construction of the Koch snowflake that is not inherently six-way symmetrical, based on iteratively placing similar rhombi. This construction naturally splits the snowflake into four identical self-similar curves, in contrast to the typical decomposition into three Koch curves. Varying the shape of the rhombi creates a continuous family of new fractal curves with rectangular symmetry. We compute the Hausdorff dimension of the generalized curve and show that it attains a maximum at the original Koch snowflake.