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Amoeba, a still.

Tiny World · Built from a recipe

Amoeba

G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 390.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

An amoeba is a living thing made of one soft cell with no fixed shape.

Shelf
Tiny World
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 390.5 Hz, 7 cents flat of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Amoeba's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1391 Hz
  2. 2565 Hz
  3. 3660 Hz
  4. 4735 Hz
  5. 5808 Hz
  6. 6882 Hz
  7. 7936 Hz
  8. 8986 Hz
  9. 91039 Hz
  10. 101074 Hz
  11. 111149 Hz
  12. 121203 Hz
  13. 131211 Hz
  14. 141248 Hz
  15. 151319 Hz
  16. 161346 Hz

How to play

Drag it to pull out a pseudopod; let go and it oozes back. Tap it to make it crawl.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
CrawlTap
CrawlButton
ColorColor#9fb6ea

About it

An amoeba is a living thing made of one soft cell with no fixed shape. It lives in ponds and damp soil and moves by pushing out a bulge called a pseudopod, which means "false foot," and flowing into it. It eats by wrapping its body around bits of food.

Drag any part of it and it stretches toward your finger like a new pseudopod; let go and it oozes back. Tap it and it crawls: a pseudopod pushes out to one side, the grains inside stream into it and the cell oozes over; then it pushes out the other way and oozes back. Even at rest, its pods stretch a little.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 279,998 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=amoeba<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="amoeba"></splashery-toy>

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