Photoreal · Capture
Cone Shell
B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 464.3 Hz.
The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- 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 464.3 Hz, 7 cents flat of B♭4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.
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How to play
Tap it to turn it on its point; drag to turn it yourself.
About it
The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats. Cone snails live on tropical reefs and hunt with a tiny harpoon that carries venom; the netted pattern of gold and brown tents grows at the shell's lip, line by line.
Tap it and it turns one way and the other on its point. Drag to circle it and follow the pattern.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard (textile) cone shellConverted, recentered and scaled; the putty it stood on cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
