Photoreal · Capture
Wind-up Robot
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 612.5 Hz.
A tin wind-up robot of the kind made in the 1950s, modeled and rendered on a computer and then drawn with splats.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- 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 612.5 Hz, 27 cents flat of E♭5. 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 for a ripple and a small hop; drag to turn it.
About it
A tin wind-up robot of the kind made in the 1950s, modeled and rendered on a computer and then drawn with splats. A real wind-up toy stores energy in a coiled spring that a key tightens; as the spring unwinds it turns gears that move the legs and arms.
Tap it and a ripple runs over the robot as it hops. Drag to circle it and look at its round dial, its colored buttons, and its raised arm.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Wind-up robotBuilt and rendered in Blender (tools/blender/splat-training-set.py), trained into splats with Brush, recentered and scaled. | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
