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Paper Plane, a still.

Toys · Built from a recipe

Paper Plane

B♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 890.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A paper plane is a sheet of paper folded into a glider.

Shelf
Toys
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 890.5 Hz, 79 cents flat of B♭5, 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 Paper Plane's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1891 Hz
  2. 21151 Hz
  3. 31368 Hz
  4. 41538 Hz
  5. 51642 Hz
  6. 61752 Hz
  7. 71925 Hz
  8. 81929 Hz
  9. 92094 Hz
  10. 102130 Hz
  11. 112258 Hz
  12. 122275 Hz
  13. 132385 Hz
  14. 142459 Hz
  15. 152518 Hz
  16. 162603 Hz

How to play

Tap it to do a barrel roll.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Barrel rollTap
Barrel rollButton
PaperColor#cfe6f7
Lined paperSetting

About it

A paper plane is a sheet of paper folded into a glider. It has no engine: once thrown, it slowly trades height for speed, and air flowing over its wings holds it up, while the weight at the pointed nose keeps it flying straight. Small folds at the back of the wings can make it climb, dive or turn.

This plane glides and bobs gently in place. Tap it and it does a barrel roll, one full turn around its long middle, while it lifts a little. In the Splash tab, pick the color of the paper, and choose lined paper or plain.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 30,000 at Low, and up to 360,000 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=paper-plane<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="paper-plane"></splashery-toy>

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