
Photoreal · Capture
Tomatoes
B♭4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 488.4 Hz.
Tomatoes are the fruit of a plant that first grew wild in western South America.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, CC0, MIT, BSD
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 488.4 Hz, 81 cents sharp of B♭4, 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.

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How to play
Tap it to make the tomatoes hop and rock. With ✋ on, drag a tomato to lift it and set it down.
About it
Tomatoes are the fruit of a plant that first grew wild in western South America. They are cooked and eaten like vegetables, but to a botanist a tomato is a berry: a juicy fruit that grows from a flower and holds many seeds.
Tap it and the plate gives a little shake: a wave of small hops runs around it, and the tomatoes land in four groups, rock outward and settle with a wobble. There are thousands of kinds of tomato, from tiny cherry tomatoes to ones bigger than a fist, in red, yellow, orange, green and purple. With ✋ Hands-on on, drag any tomato to lift it on its own and set it down on the plate or on another; reset puts them all back.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Tomatoes - No Postshot!Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | simonbethke | CC BY 4.0 |
| Impact Sounds (kenney-soft-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)



