
Math · Built from a recipe
Klein Bottle
C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 550.0 Hz.
A Klein bottle is a surface with no inside and no outside.
- Shelf
- Math
- 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 550.0 Hz, 86 cents sharp of C5, 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.

- 1550 Hz
- 2680 Hz
- 3814 Hz
- 4947 Hz
- 51027 Hz
- 61078 Hz
- 71150 Hz
- 81204 Hz
- 91273 Hz
- 101309 Hz
- 111387 Hz
- 121408 Hz
- 131487 Hz
- 141506 Hz
- 151532 Hz
- 161580 Hz
How to play
Tap to send water through. Set the glow in the Splash tab.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send water through | Tap | ||
| Glow | Slider | 0 to 100% | 50% |
| Surge | Button | ||
| Glass | Color | #3fb6c9 |
About it
A Klein bottle is a surface with no inside and no outside. Its neck bends around and passes through its own side to join the bottom from within, so an ant crawling on it could reach every part of it without ever crossing an edge. Felix Klein described it in 1882. A true Klein bottle needs four dimensions; in our world its neck has to cut through the wall.
Tap it and a surge of glowing water pours in at the base, runs up the body, through the neck and around into the bottom, then fades. Set the glow, or pick the color of the glass, in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 48,000 at Low, and up to 200,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Bottle Slosh 2 (klein-bottle-slosh.mp3) | alegemaate | CC0 1.0 |



