
Tiny World · Built from a recipe
Diatom
D4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 277.4 Hz.
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.

- 1277 Hz
- 2430 Hz
- 3453 Hz
- 4584 Hz
- 5590 Hz
- 6645 Hz
- 7730 Hz
- 8730 Hz
- 9792 Hz
- 10833 Hz
- 11868 Hz
- 12870 Hz
- 13947 Hz
- 14972 Hz
- 151004 Hz
- 161005 Hz
How to play
Tap it to make the glass shell glint and open.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glint and open | Tap | ||
| Open | Button | ||
| Glass | Color | #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.



