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Diatom, a still.

Tiny World · Built from a recipe

Diatom

D4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 277.4 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A diatom is a single-celled alga with a shell made of silica, the material in glass.

Shelf
Tiny World
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 277.4 Hz, 99 cents flat of D4, 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 Diatom's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1277 Hz
  2. 2430 Hz
  3. 3453 Hz
  4. 4584 Hz
  5. 5590 Hz
  6. 6645 Hz
  7. 7730 Hz
  8. 8730 Hz
  9. 9792 Hz
  10. 10833 Hz
  11. 11868 Hz
  12. 12870 Hz
  13. 13947 Hz
  14. 14972 Hz
  15. 151004 Hz
  16. 161005 Hz

How to play

Tap it to make the glass shell glint and open.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Glint and openTap
OpenButton
GlassColor#7fd6d0

About it

A diatom is a single-celled alga with a shell made of silica, the material in glass. Its patterned shell, called a frustule, has two overlapping halves, rather like a box and its lid. Diatoms live in fresh and salt water and use sunlight to make food, releasing oxygen.

Tap it and a glint of light runs across the glass, then the two halves lift apart to show the golden cell inside and close again; real diatoms don't open like this. Diatoms make about a fifth of the oxygen on Earth.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 55,342 at Low, and up to 720,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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

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