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Snowman, a still.

Holidays · Built from a recipe

Snowman

E5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 678.0 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A snowman is built from big balls of snow rolled across the ground, stacked up and given a face of coal, a carrot nose, stick arms, a scarf and a hat.

Shelf
Holidays
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 678.0 Hz, 49 cents sharp of E5. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Snowman's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1678 Hz
  2. 2861 Hz
  3. 31062 Hz
  4. 41159 Hz
  5. 51213 Hz
  6. 61411 Hz
  7. 71450 Hz
  8. 81575 Hz
  9. 91579 Hz
  10. 101652 Hz
  11. 111781 Hz
  12. 121816 Hz
  13. 131923 Hz
  14. 141944 Hz
  15. 152028 Hz
  16. 162073 Hz

How to play

Tap to melt it and build it again. Try the Warmth slider in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Melt and rebuildTap
WarmthSlider0 to 100%0%
ThawButton

About it

A snowman is built from big balls of snow rolled across the ground, stacked up and given a face of coal, a carrot nose, stick arms, a scarf and a hat. Snow packs best when it is just at the melting point and a little wet, so the flakes stick together. Fresh snow is mostly air, which is why it is so light and fluffy.

Tap it and it melts: the snowballs shrink, the head first, drips fall, and the hat, nose, coals, arms and scarf drop off one by one, and the meltwater spreads into a puddle around it. Then it builds itself again from the bottom up. The Warmth slider in the Splash tab melts it the same way. With ✋ Hands-on on, lift the head or the middle ball off, set it down anywhere and stack them back up: each ball keeps its own coal, nose, arms, scarf or hat.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 940,000 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=snowman<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="snowman"></splashery-toy>

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