
Shapes · Generated shape
Neon Knot
A3 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 233.3 Hz.
A glowing tube tied in a trefoil knot, the simplest true knot.
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- Own work (made in the page)
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.

- 1233 Hz
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- 9670 Hz
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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.

