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Crystal Ball, a still.

Medieval · Built from a recipe

Crystal Ball

C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 554.2 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A crystal ball is a ball of clear glass or quartz.

Shelf
Medieval
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 554.2 Hz, 99 cents sharp of C5, 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 Crystal Ball's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1554 Hz
  2. 2694 Hz
  3. 3845 Hz
  4. 4893 Hz
  5. 5932 Hz
  6. 61087 Hz
  7. 71110 Hz
  8. 81147 Hz
  9. 91178 Hz
  10. 101276 Hz
  11. 111304 Hz
  12. 121358 Hz
  13. 131395 Hz
  14. 141428 Hz
  15. 151472 Hz
  16. 161498 Hz

How to play

Tap to gaze into it. Hands-on: lift the ball off its stand, roll it, set it back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Gaze into the ballTap
SparkleSlider0 to 100%50%
GazeButton
MistColor#b061ff

About it

A crystal ball is a ball of clear glass or quartz. In old stories, fortune tellers gaze into one to see visions of what is to come. A real clear ball also works like a lens: look through it and you see the room behind it, small and upside down.

This one is filled with glowing mist. Tap it and the mist whips around and thins, and a glowing sign rises out of it, turns once and fades: a star, a moon or a heart in turn. Pick the color of the mist in the Splash tab. Sparkle adjusts the sparkling effect in the ball. With ✋ Hands-on on, lift the ball off its stand and set it down or roll it on the table, its mist swirling inside; bring it back over the stand and it settles into its cup.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 57,272 at Low, and up to 860,000 at Max

Sources and credits

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

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