Splashery

Playground
Longtail, a still.

Arcade · Built from a recipe

Longtail

C5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 560.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A string of glass beads crawls from tile to tile, one tile a beat.

Shelf
Arcade
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Apache-2.0, MIT, BSD

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 560.5 Hz, 119 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.

The sixteen ways Longtail's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1561 Hz
  2. 2745 Hz
  3. 3807 Hz
  4. 4833 Hz
  5. 5895 Hz
  6. 6975 Hz
  7. 71076 Hz
  8. 81114 Hz
  9. 91215 Hz
  10. 101317 Hz
  11. 111322 Hz
  12. 121387 Hz
  13. 131404 Hz
  14. 141457 Hz
  15. 151458 Hz
  16. 161495 Hz

How to play

Tap to play. Tap beside the head to turn it that way, or use the arrows. 3D folds it up; drag to turn it.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Play or pauseTap
PlayButton
WorldList3 choicesCube
PlanetList3 choicesMars
TunnelsSetting
ViewList2 choices2D

About it

A string of glass beads crawls from tile to tile, one tile a beat. Each berry it eats makes it two beads longer, and running into its own body ends the game. A tap beside the head, or the arrows, turn it toward that side.

The tiles fold into a world. The Cube starts as a flat cross of six faces; leaving one edge of the cross brings you back in where that edge meets once folded, and the 3D button swings the faces up on their hinges into a cube; drag to turn it. The Planet folds the same way and then rounds out into Mars, the Moon or Earth from the Space shelf, each tile the color of the ground under it. The Ring starts as a strip whose edges wrap round and rolls up into a tube bent into a ring. With Tunnels on, dark mouths lead straight through to the far side. P pauses, R starts again; the best score stays on this device.

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Libraries

Apache-2.0
Basic Pitch, ONNX (lane Audio piano, October 21, 2026)
MIT
omggif 1.0.10
MIT
ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD
PDF.js 6.3.289

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

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