
Animals · Built from a recipe
Octopus
C5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 502.7 Hz.
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.

- 1503 Hz
- 2675 Hz
- 3883 Hz
- 4891 Hz
- 5985 Hz
- 61110 Hz
- 71144 Hz
- 81261 Hz
- 91274 Hz
- 101325 Hz
- 111387 Hz
- 121465 Hz
- 131509 Hz
- 141568 Hz
- 151597 Hz
- 161651 Hz
How to play
Tap it to squirt ink.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squirt ink | Tap | ||
| Ink | Button | ||
| Color | List | 4 choices | Coral |
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.



