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Potted Cactus, a still.

Photoreal · Capture

Potted Cactus

B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 491.8 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A cactus is a plant built to live where rain is rare.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC0, MIT, BSD

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 491.8 Hz, 93 cents sharp of B♭4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Potted Cactus's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1492 Hz
  2. 2594 Hz
  3. 3757 Hz
  4. 4834 Hz
  5. 5903 Hz
  6. 6952 Hz
  7. 71061 Hz
  8. 81072 Hz
  9. 91139 Hz
  10. 101230 Hz
  11. 111277 Hz
  12. 121316 Hz
  13. 131349 Hz
  14. 141385 Hz
  15. 151408 Hz
  16. 161483 Hz

How to play

Tap it to open a ring of flowers around its top.

About it

A cactus is a plant built to live where rain is rare. Its thick green stem stores water, and its spines are leaves that have changed shape: they shade the stem and keep hungry animals away. The stem, not leaves, does the work of turning sunlight into food.

Tap it and nine magenta flowers open one after another in a ring around the top, then close again. Many cacti bloom for only a few days a year, and some flowers open for just one night.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Cactus (3DGS sample data)Converted to SOG, spherical harmonics removed, recentered, scaled and cropped.steam studio / 3D SCAN STUDIO irisCC0 1.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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

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