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Owl, a still.

Animals · Built from a recipe

Owl

A4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 428.0 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Owls are birds that mostly hunt at night.

Shelf
Animals
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
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 428.0 Hz, 48 cents flat of A4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Owl's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1428 Hz
  2. 2585 Hz
  3. 3738 Hz
  4. 4757 Hz
  5. 5912 Hz
  6. 6937 Hz
  7. 71018 Hz
  8. 81070 Hz
  9. 91116 Hz
  10. 101191 Hz
  11. 111254 Hz
  12. 121304 Hz
  13. 131328 Hz
  14. 141373 Hz
  15. 151390 Hz
  16. 161463 Hz

How to play

Tap it to turn its head. Hands-on: press on its head and move around; it watches you.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Turn the headTap
Turn headButton

About it

Owls are birds that mostly hunt at night. Their big eyes cannot move in their sockets, so an owl turns its whole head instead, as far as about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way around. Soft, fringed edges on its feathers let it fly almost without a sound.

This owl sits on a branch. Tap it and it turns its head far around to look behind it, holds there a moment, then turns back to face you. With ✋ Hands-on on, press on its head and move your finger around: the owl turns its head to follow it. Pick it up by the body to toss it, and it settles back on its branch.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,001 at Low, and up to 370,000 at Max

Sources and credits

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

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