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Cluster Fly, a still.

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Cluster Fly

E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 604.1 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Cluster flies are a little larger than house flies, with golden hairs on their backs.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, 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 604.1 Hz, 51 cents flat of E♭5, 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 Cluster Fly's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1604 Hz
  2. 2823 Hz
  3. 3983 Hz
  4. 41061 Hz
  5. 51228 Hz
  6. 61293 Hz
  7. 71313 Hz
  8. 81412 Hz
  9. 91480 Hz
  10. 101510 Hz
  11. 111641 Hz
  12. 121645 Hz
  13. 131719 Hz
  14. 141759 Hz
  15. 151860 Hz
  16. 161866 Hz

How to play

Tap it to make it groom its legs and face.

About it

Cluster flies are a little larger than house flies, with golden hairs on their backs. They get their name from the way hundreds of them gather in attics and window frames in autumn to wait out the winter. Their young live in the soil, feeding on earthworms.

Tap it and it grooms like a real fly: the front legs rub together, reach up and wipe its face while its head dips, and then it gives a little shake. Flies clean themselves often because their legs and eyes need to stay free of dust to taste and see.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Cluster FlyConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled.Dany BittelCC BY 4.0

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

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