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Neon Knot

A3 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 233.3 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A glowing tube tied in a trefoil knot, the simplest true knot.

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Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 233.3 Hz, 102 cents sharp of A3, 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 Neon Knot's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1233 Hz
  2. 2365 Hz
  3. 3372 Hz
  4. 4467 Hz
  5. 5515 Hz
  6. 6528 Hz
  7. 7591 Hz
  8. 8598 Hz
  9. 9670 Hz
  10. 10689 Hz
  11. 11700 Hz
  12. 12730 Hz
  13. 13744 Hz
  14. 14821 Hz
  15. 15828 Hz
  16. 16828 Hz

How to play

Tap it to make it twist and writhe.

About it

A glowing tube tied in a trefoil knot, the simplest true knot. Tie a knot in a string and join the two ends, and you get a loop that can never be untangled without cutting it; the trefoil crosses itself three times. Mathematicians study knots like this in a field called knot theory.

Tap it and waves of swelling loops run around the tube, lifting and twisting it as it glows pink, then it settles back into its trefoil. Real neon signs glow because electricity makes the gas inside the glass tube shine; pure neon glows red-orange.

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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

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