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Lava Lamp, a still.

Weather & Fire · Built from a recipe

Lava Lamp

G5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 784.0 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A lava lamp is a glass bottle of liquid with blobs of colored wax inside, and a lamp in its base.

Shelf
Weather & Fire
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
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 784.0 Hz, right on G5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Lava Lamp's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1784 Hz
  2. 2829 Hz
  3. 3992 Hz
  4. 41130 Hz
  5. 51265 Hz
  6. 61355 Hz
  7. 71401 Hz
  8. 81514 Hz
  9. 91532 Hz
  10. 101675 Hz
  11. 111680 Hz
  12. 121732 Hz
  13. 131820 Hz
  14. 141882 Hz
  15. 151883 Hz
  16. 161977 Hz

How to play

Tap to heat it up. Pick colors, blobs and flow in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Heat it upTap
Heat upButton
FlowSlider0 to 100%50%
GlowSlider0 to 100%0%
Color setList6 choicesPick below
WaxColor#e8341c
LiquidColor#f2b632
BaseColor#b8bcc4
BlobsSetting
Blob sizeSetting
Blob shapeList3 choicesMixed

About it

A lava lamp is a glass bottle of liquid with blobs of colored wax inside, and a lamp in its base. When the wax is cool it is a little denser than the liquid and rests at the bottom. The lamp warms it, the wax spreads out and gets less dense, and a blob rises; at the top it cools and sinks again.

Tap it to heat it up: the blobs move much faster, the wax glows and shifts color, and the liquid brightens, then it all eases back. In the Splash tab, pick a color set or your own colors, how many blobs, their size and shape, how fast they flow, and a glow from within.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 360,000 at Max

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

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