Splashery

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Sapphire, a still.

Gems · Built from a recipe

Sapphire

G4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 370.6 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A sapphire is the mineral corundum, the same as ruby, but colored blue by iron and titanium.

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 370.6 Hz, 97 cents flat 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 Sapphire's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1371 Hz
  2. 2520 Hz
  3. 3648 Hz
  4. 4677 Hz
  5. 5790 Hz
  6. 6829 Hz
  7. 7918 Hz
  8. 8954 Hz
  9. 9986 Hz
  10. 101067 Hz
  11. 111088 Hz
  12. 121145 Hz
  13. 131193 Hz
  14. 141225 Hz
  15. 151246 Hz
  16. 161306 Hz

How to play

Tap it to catch the six-rayed star gliding across it.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Catch the starTap
StarButton
ColorColor#1f4fd1

About it

A sapphire is the mineral corundum, the same as ruby, but colored blue by iron and titanium. Sapphires come in many colors, from yellow to pink, but blue is the best known. They are very hard, so they last a long time in rings.

Some sapphires show a star of six rays, because tiny needles of another mineral inside reflect the light. The star is called an asterism, and it moves as the stone or the light moves. Tap it to catch the star: its rays spread out from a bright center, it glides across the top, and the rays draw back in at the far side.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 830,000 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=sapphire<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="sapphire"></splashery-toy>

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