Photoreal · Capture
Souvenir Turtle
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 574.5 Hz.
A souvenir sea turtle, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, 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 574.5 Hz, 138 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.
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- 161785 Hz
How to play
Tap it to make it crawl; drag to turn it.
About it
A souvenir sea turtle, captured from photos and drawn with splats. Sea turtles have flippers instead of feet and cannot pull their heads into their shells. Mother turtles come back to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs, sometimes after decades at sea.
Tap it and the turtle crawls a little way forward, swaying, and back. Drag to circle it and look at the shell plates and the flippers.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Turtle SouvenirConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Tony Rose | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
