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Saguaro Cactus, a still.

Nature · Built from a recipe

Saguaro Cactus

E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 603.5 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

The saguaro is a giant cactus of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico.

Shelf
Nature
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
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 603.5 Hz, 53 cents flat of E♭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 Saguaro Cactus's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1604 Hz
  2. 2657 Hz
  3. 3816 Hz
  4. 4877 Hz
  5. 5974 Hz
  6. 61042 Hz
  7. 71117 Hz
  8. 81141 Hz
  9. 91217 Hz
  10. 101278 Hz
  11. 111326 Hz
  12. 121340 Hz
  13. 131419 Hz
  14. 141450 Hz
  15. 151509 Hz
  16. 161573 Hz

How to play

Tap for the spines, then a look inside. Set its arms and flowers in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Spines out, then a look insideTap
Spines or cut-awayButton
ArmsSetting
FlowersSetting
SeedList4 choices1

About it

The saguaro is a giant cactus of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Mexico. It grows very slowly but can reach about 12 meters tall and live for 150 years or more, and it may not grow its first arm until it is at least 50 years old. Its white flowers bloom on the tips in late spring.

Taps take turns. The first shoots all the spines out and draws them back; the next slides a wedge out of the trunk to show the inside: wet, pale green flesh around a ring of woody ribs. Its pleats spread like an accordion to store water after rain. Set the number of arms and the flowers in the Splash tab.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 530,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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

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