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Pebbles, a still.

Nature · Built from a recipe

Pebbles

G4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 426.6 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Pebbles are small stones rounded smooth by water.

Shelf
Nature
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 426.6 Hz, 146 cents sharp of G4, 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 Pebbles's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1427 Hz
  2. 2562 Hz
  3. 3715 Hz
  4. 4748 Hz
  5. 5815 Hz
  6. 6876 Hz
  7. 7894 Hz
  8. 8992 Hz
  9. 91044 Hz
  10. 101097 Hz
  11. 111122 Hz
  12. 121154 Hz
  13. 131202 Hz
  14. 141214 Hz
  15. 151276 Hz
  16. 161323 Hz

How to play

Drag a pebble to pick it up and set it on another to stack them. Tap to tumble them.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Tumble and stackTap
Tumble and stackButton
StyleList2 choicesPebble pile
SeedList4 choices1

About it

Pebbles are small stones rounded smooth by water. As rivers and waves roll them over and over, knocking against sand and other stones, their sharp corners wear away, a process that can take hundreds or thousands of years. A cairn is a pile of stones stacked up by people, often to mark a trail.

Drag a pebble to lift it and set it on the sand or on another stone. A careful stack stands; one set on the edge topples. The ✋ button turns this off, and reset puts every stone back. Tap it and five pebbles hop one at a time onto a cairn, biggest at the bottom, then all hop back. Pick a pile or a cairn in the Splash tab.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 830,000 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=rocks<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="rocks"></splashery-toy>

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