
Arcade · Built from a recipe
Cast a Shadow
C4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 250.2 Hz.
A carved block hangs between a lamp and a wall, and every piece of it casts its own small shadow.
- Shelf
- Arcade
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Apache-2.0, 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 250.2 Hz, 77 cents flat of C4, 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.

- 1250 Hz
- 2396 Hz
- 3396 Hz
- 4500 Hz
- 5559 Hz
- 6559 Hz
- 7638 Hz
- 8638 Hz
- 9729 Hz
- 10729 Hz
- 11750 Hz
- 12791 Hz
- 13791 Hz
- 14884 Hz
- 15884 Hz
- 16901 Hz
How to play
Drag or use the arrow keys to turn the block until its shadow fills the outline. Q and E roll it.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play or pause | Tap | ||
| Play | Button | ||
| View | List | 2 choices | 2D |
About it
A carved block hangs between a lamp and a wall, and every piece of it casts its own small shadow. Each block is carved so that from one way its shadow is a picture, a heart, a fish, a key, a house, a star, a tree or a bird, and from the side it is another; from most turns it is a jumble. Turn it until its shadow fills the outline drawn on the wall; the Match chip says how close you are. In 2D you see only the wall, as if you stood at the lamp, and turn the block by its shadow alone; the 3D button steps to the side so the lamp and the block show.
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- Apache-2.0
- Basic Pitch, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
- MIT
- omggif 1.0.10
- MIT
- ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
- MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD
- PDF.js 6.3.289



