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Opal, a still.

Gems · Built from a recipe

Opal

G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 385.0 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Opal is made of tiny balls of silica, the stuff of quartz and sand, with a little water between them.

Shelf
Gems
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC0

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 385.0 Hz, 31 cents flat of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Opal's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1385 Hz
  2. 2524 Hz
  3. 3670 Hz
  4. 4689 Hz
  5. 5815 Hz
  6. 6826 Hz
  7. 7947 Hz
  8. 8981 Hz
  9. 9999 Hz
  10. 101084 Hz
  11. 111124 Hz
  12. 121140 Hz
  13. 131223 Hz
  14. 141251 Hz
  15. 151299 Hz
  16. 161308 Hz

How to play

Tap it to tilt it and roll flashes of color across it. Pick an opal in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Tilt it in the lightTap
Play of colorButton
OpalList3 choicesWhite opal

About it

Opal is made of tiny balls of silica, the stuff of quartz and sand, with a little water between them. In precious opal the balls are packed in neat rows, and light passing through them splits into flashes of color that change as the stone moves. This is called play of color. Fire opal is named for its orange body. Opal is cut into a smooth dome called a cabochon, not into facets.

Tap it and it rocks in the light while patches of color roll across it, changing as they go. In the Splash tab, pick a white, black or fire opal. Most of the world's opal comes from Australia.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 440,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3)UnicornaphobistCC0 1.0

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

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