
Photoreal · Built from a recipe
Fluorite
E♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 315.3 Hz.
A specimen of fluorite, scanned and drawn with splats.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- 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 315.3 Hz, 23 cents sharp of E♭4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1315 Hz
- 2478 Hz
- 3520 Hz
- 4648 Hz
- 5662 Hz
- 6731 Hz
- 7795 Hz
- 8838 Hz
- 9869 Hz
- 10931 Hz
- 11961 Hz
- 12995 Hz
- 131046 Hz
- 141053 Hz
- 151122 Hz
- 161124 Hz
How to play
Tap it to switch on the ultraviolet lamp; drag to turn it.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ultraviolet lamp | Tap | ||
| Ultraviolet lamp | Button |
About it
A specimen of fluorite, scanned and drawn with splats. Fluorite is calcium fluoride and grows in cubes. Under ultraviolet light many fluorite crystals glow blue-violet: the word fluorescence comes from this mineral.
Tap it and the lamp comes on: the stone turns slowly in its glow, then the lamp goes off. Drag to turn it and look for the cubes that grew into one another as the crystal formed.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Mineral: Fluorite | Digital Atlas of Ancient Life (Paleontological Research Institution) | CC0 1.0 |



