
Photoreal · Capture
Millipede
B♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 865.2 Hz.
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.

- 1865 Hz
- 2931 Hz
- 31002 Hz
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- 51211 Hz
- 61325 Hz
- 71452 Hz
- 81574 Hz
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- 101704 Hz
- 111765 Hz
- 121787 Hz
- 131828 Hz
- 141904 Hz
- 151932 Hz
- 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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| millipede spec.Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | scant3d | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)



