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Millipede

B♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 865.2 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A millipede is a long, slow animal with a body made of many rings, and most of the rings carry two pairs of legs.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, 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 865.2 Hz, 129 cents flat of B♭5, 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 Millipede's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1865 Hz
  2. 2931 Hz
  3. 31002 Hz
  4. 41099 Hz
  5. 51211 Hz
  6. 61325 Hz
  7. 71452 Hz
  8. 81574 Hz
  9. 91652 Hz
  10. 101704 Hz
  11. 111765 Hz
  12. 121787 Hz
  13. 131828 Hz
  14. 141904 Hz
  15. 151932 Hz
  16. 161979 Hz

How to play

Tap it to send a wave down its legs.

About it

A millipede is a long, slow animal with a body made of many rings, and most of the rings carry two pairs of legs. The name means "thousand feet," though most kinds have far fewer. Millipedes munch on dead leaves and rotting wood, which helps turn them back into soil.

Tap it and a wave ripples down its legs as it stretches out straight, then it curls up tighter and relaxes. The leggiest millipede known, found in Australia in 2021, has more than 1,300 legs.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
millipede spec.Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled.scant3dCC BY 4.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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

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