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Vintage Camera, a still.

Photoreal · Capture

Vintage Camera

E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 652.6 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

Inside, a roll of film coated with chemicals that change when light hits them sits behind the lens.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
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 652.6 Hz, 82 cents sharp 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.

The sixteen ways Vintage Camera's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1653 Hz
  2. 2907 Hz
  3. 31138 Hz
  4. 41219 Hz
  5. 51304 Hz
  6. 61533 Hz
  7. 71566 Hz
  8. 81642 Hz
  9. 91765 Hz
  10. 101821 Hz
  11. 111890 Hz
  12. 121988 Hz
  13. 132095 Hz
  14. 142129 Hz
  15. 152216 Hz
  16. 162246 Hz

How to play

Tap it to take a photo with a flash.

About it

An old film camera. Inside, a roll of film coated with chemicals that change when light hits them sits behind the lens. Pressing the button opens a shutter for a split second, the lens lets in a picture of the world, and the film keeps it. Then a lever winds the film on to a fresh frame.

Tap it and the flash bursts, the whole scene whites out for a moment, and you hear the shutter and a stylized whoomph from the flash. Early cameras needed people to sit still for minutes; a modern shutter can open for less than a thousandth of a second.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Camera 01Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentered and scaled. The maker's and lens names printed on it were painted out.Rajil Jose MacatangayCC0 1.0
Vintage Camera Flash Powder and Shutter (vintage-camera-flash.mp3)WerraCC0 1.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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=vintage-camera<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="vintage-camera"></splashery-toy>

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