Model to Splats

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 277.8 Hz, 96 cents flat of D4, 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.

Tap to lift the splats off the model; they settle back. Pick or open a model in the Splash tab.

A 3D model is usually a mesh: a net of flat triangles with colors or a picture (a texture) painted on them. This splash turns a mesh into splats. It scatters points across the surface, more of them where the shape bends sharply or is finely made, and lays a small flat splat on each one, facing the way the surface does. Each splat is sized to its neighbors so the surface closes with no gaps, and takes its color from the texture at that spot. Sharp edges stay sharp.

Tap to lift every splat into a loose cloud and watch each one settle back into its own place. Show: Wireframe draws the mesh's own edges as thin splats, so you can see what the splats were made from. Open a .glb, .gltf, .obj or .stl in the Splash tab (select a model's other files with it); it is converted on your device and never uploaded.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.