Photoreal · Capture
Murex Shell
G5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 843.4 Hz.
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- 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 843.4 Hz, 126 cents sharp of G5, 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.
- 1843 Hz
- 21162 Hz
- 31439 Hz
- 41519 Hz
- 51687 Hz
- 61805 Hz
- 71966 Hz
- 82080 Hz
- 92097 Hz
- 102238 Hz
- 112259 Hz
- 122381 Hz
- 132489 Hz
- 142530 Hz
- 152627 Hz
- 162680 Hz
How to play
Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.
About it
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats. This shape is the Venus comb murex, a sea snail whose long spines guard it from crabs and fish. The shell is made of calcium carbonate that the snail builds, a little at a time, from the sea water.
Tap it and the shell turns once round, showing its spines from every side. Drag to turn it and look at the fine, comb-like spines.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Murex ShellConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Rigsters | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
