Aisle 6No. 99 of 460
Splashery
Gyroid
500,000 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.
Math · Built from a recipe
Gyroid
A gyroid is a curving surface that splits space into two tangled mazes of tunnels that never meet.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to make it breathe. Pick a cube or a ball in the Splash tab.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 99 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 6, Math
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 500,000
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breathe in and out | Tap | ||
| Breathe | Button | ||
| Shape | List | 2 choices | Cube |
About it
A gyroid is a curving surface that splits space into two tangled mazes of tunnels that never meet. It has no straight lines and no flat parts, and it repeats forever in every direction. Alan Schoen, a scientist working for NASA, found it in 1970. Nature makes it too: tiny gyroid crystals in some butterfly wings give them their shiny green color.
Tap it and it breathes: the surface slides along itself, so one set of tunnels swells while the other narrows, then the other way, and it settles. In the Splash tab, cut it into a cube or a ball.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 710,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
