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Bonsai, a still.

Nature · Built from a recipe

Bonsai

C5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 537.4 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A bonsai is a real tree kept small by careful growing in a shallow pot.

Shelf
Nature
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
CC0

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 537.4 Hz, 46 cents sharp of C5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Bonsai's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1537 Hz
  2. 2669 Hz
  3. 3830 Hz
  4. 4885 Hz
  5. 5988 Hz
  6. 61022 Hz
  7. 71055 Hz
  8. 81123 Hz
  9. 91143 Hz
  10. 101167 Hz
  11. 111212 Hz
  12. 121236 Hz
  13. 131297 Hz
  14. 141346 Hz
  15. 151391 Hz
  16. 161408 Hz

How to play

Tap it to grow a new branch, then trim it. Hands-on: pull a branch; it springs back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Grow a branch, then trim itTap
Grow and trimButton
PotColor#2e5f80

About it

A bonsai is a real tree kept small by careful growing in a shallow pot. Its keeper trims the branches and roots and shapes the trunk, sometimes for many years, so it looks like a tiny old tree from the wild. The art grew in China and was refined in Japan.

Tap it and a new branch grows out of the trunk with a pad of leaves on its end; then a pair of bonsai scissors slides in and snips it off, the cut piece drops onto the moss and is cleared away, and the stub heals over. Pick the pot's color in the Splash tab. Some bonsai trees are hundreds of years old. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull a branch's foliage and it bends after your finger; let go and it springs back.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 55,364 at Low, and up to 880,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
scissors cut.wav (bonsai-snip.mp3)mywhatsCC0 1.0

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

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