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Fountain Pen, a still.

Everyday Things · Built from a recipe

Fountain Pen

C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 510.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A fountain pen carries its own ink inside.

Shelf
Everyday Things
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 510.5 Hz, 43 cents flat of C5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Fountain Pen's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1511 Hz
  2. 2624 Hz
  3. 3773 Hz
  4. 4937 Hz
  5. 5954 Hz
  6. 61025 Hz
  7. 71100 Hz
  8. 81138 Hz
  9. 91243 Hz
  10. 101298 Hz
  11. 111394 Hz
  12. 121403 Hz
  13. 131463 Hz
  14. 141464 Hz
  15. 151529 Hz
  16. 161567 Hz

How to play

Tap it to uncap the pen and write a swirl in wet blue ink.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Uncap and writeTap
WriteButton

About it

A fountain pen carries its own ink inside. The ink runs from the barrel through a thin channel called the feed to a split metal nib, and the slit draws it down to the paper by capillary action, the same pull that lets a paper towel soak up water.

This one is made from a detailed 3D model of a real green pen. Tap it and the cap slides off and clicks onto the back end, the nib writes a looping swirl that shines while it is wet and dries darker, and the cap goes back on. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull the cap off the nib yourself and push it onto the back end, where it clicks on turned around, the way people post a cap while they write.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 88,630 at Low, and up to 351,429 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=fountain-pen<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="fountain-pen"></splashery-toy>

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