Neuron Specimen

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 365.9 Hz, 119 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.

Tap the cell to stimulate it there. In Splash, change the stain or turn Focus.

From a concept by Ryan Kamp. A textbook nerve cell on a lit microscope slide: dendrites, a cell body with its nucleus and Nissl bodies, a myelinated axon, and terminals. At full Focus, most screens draw 32,768 splats, low-memory phones 8,192.

A tap is a stimulating electrode: the signal spreads through the dendrites to the cell body, which fires a spike down the axon, node to node. The waveform is the Hodgkin-Huxley squid axon model, slowed; this is a schematic, not a measured neuron. Nissl dyes the Nissl bodies and leaves the axon pale, Golgi turns the neuron black on amber, and H&E shows pink cytoplasm and blue-purple nuclei. Lower Focus: pairs of splats merge into one, keeping mass, center, and covariance, while the slide stays lit. Made by Ryan Kamp, CC0; code MIT.

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