Okay so I just stumbled on this from the algorithm and I can't read the title, description, or comments, so I'll take a stab at explaining for any fellow lost souls that wind up here: the water in the pipes has been supercooled (this is a process by which water can be taken below freezing without turning into ice) this presumably occured because tap water is normally demineralised to prevent limescale and the ambient temperature must have fallen below freezing fairly slowly. Since the flow of the water through the tap is laminar, the supercooling is not broken. However, the existing ice provides a site for crystal formation and so when the water touches it, some of it freezes. This is why the ice tower seems to grow. The water that runs off the side has probably been heated above it's freezing point by the energy released from the freezing process (the latent heat of fusion).
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