Aisle 8No. 164 of 460
Splashery
Cone Shell
300,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Photoreal · Capture
Cone Shell
The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to turn it on its point; drag to turn it yourself.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 164 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 8, Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Small parts
- 300,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
About it
The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats. Cone snails live on tropical reefs and hunt with a tiny harpoon that carries venom; the netted pattern of gold and brown tents grows at the shell's lip, line by line.
Tap it and it turns one way and the other on its point. Drag to circle it and follow the pattern.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard (textile) cone shellConverted, recentered and scaled; the putty it stood on cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
