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Octopus, a still.

Animals · Built from a recipe

Octopus

C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 502.7 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

An octopus is a soft-bodied sea animal with eight arms lined with suckers.

Shelf
Animals
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 502.7 Hz, 69 cents flat of C5, 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 Octopus's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1503 Hz
  2. 2675 Hz
  3. 3883 Hz
  4. 4891 Hz
  5. 5985 Hz
  6. 61110 Hz
  7. 71144 Hz
  8. 81261 Hz
  9. 91274 Hz
  10. 101325 Hz
  11. 111387 Hz
  12. 121465 Hz
  13. 131509 Hz
  14. 141568 Hz
  15. 151597 Hz
  16. 161651 Hz

How to play

Tap it to squirt ink.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Squirt inkTap
InkButton
ColorList4 choicesCoral

About it

An octopus is a soft-bodied sea animal with eight arms lined with suckers. It has three hearts and blue blood, no bones at all, and it can change the color of its skin in a split second to hide or to signal.

When something scares it, an octopus squirts a cloud of dark ink and jets away behind it. Tap this one and it does just that: the ink billows out while it shoots up and away with its arms streaming, then it drifts back as the ink thins. You can pick its color in the Splash tab. With ✋ Hands-on on, drag its body and the arms trail behind and curl back; pull an arm and let it go.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,002 at Low, and up to 550,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

In The Splash Manual

  1. Chapter 6: Moving things

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

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