Splashery

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Marble, a still.

Balls · Built from a recipe

Marble

E4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 337.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A marble is a small, hard ball, usually of glass, with twists of color inside.

Shelf
Balls
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
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 337.5 Hz, 41 cents sharp of E4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Marble's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1338 Hz
  2. 2488 Hz
  3. 3575 Hz
  4. 4650 Hz
  5. 5699 Hz
  6. 6811 Hz
  7. 7822 Hz
  8. 8846 Hz
  9. 9930 Hz
  10. 10956 Hz
  11. 111010 Hz
  12. 121058 Hz
  13. 131067 Hz
  14. 141117 Hz
  15. 151158 Hz
  16. 161170 Hz

How to play

Tap it to roll it around a little circle.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Roll itTap
Roll itButton
SwirlColor#1e88e5

About it

A marble is a small, hard ball, usually of glass, with twists of color inside. Children have played games with little balls of clay and stone for thousands of years; glass marbles became common in the 1800s. A twist of colored glass is set in the middle of the ball while the glass is hot and soft.

Tap it and it rolls around a little circle, turning the way it rolls, so the swirl inside turns too, under a polished glass shell that catches the light at its edge. After one lap it is back exactly as it was. Pick the color of the swirl in the Splash tab.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 120,000 at Low, and up to 610,000 at Max

Sources and credits

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

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