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Emerald, a still.

Gems · Built from a recipe

Emerald

G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 404.9 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

An emerald is a green form of the mineral beryl, colored by tiny amounts of chromium or vanadium.

Shelf
Gems
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
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 404.9 Hz, 56 cents sharp of G4, 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 Emerald's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1405 Hz
  2. 2521 Hz
  3. 3667 Hz
  4. 4742 Hz
  5. 5815 Hz
  6. 6830 Hz
  7. 7932 Hz
  8. 8988 Hz
  9. 91065 Hz
  10. 101091 Hz
  11. 111142 Hz
  12. 121154 Hz
  13. 131213 Hz
  14. 141241 Hz
  15. 151310 Hz
  16. 161352 Hz

How to play

Tap it to send green light spiraling around its steps.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Run light round the stepsTap
ShineButton
ColorColor#119a5b

About it

An emerald is a green form of the mineral beryl, colored by tiny amounts of chromium or vanadium. Most emeralds have little specks and cracks inside them, and jewelers often cut them in rows of long, flat steps. That shape is so common for emeralds that it is called the emerald cut.

A step cut works like a hall of mirrors. Tap it and green light races around the edges of the steps, each one a moment behind the one outside it, so the light spirals in to the flat top, the table. Some of the finest emeralds come from Colombia.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,728 at Low, and up to 730,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3)UnicornaphobistCC0 1.0

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

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