Aisle 14No. 259 of 460
Splashery
CT Explained
589,791 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.
Imaging · Built from a recipe
CT Explained
A CT scanner (computed tomography) turns an X-ray tube and a curved row of detectors around the object, taking hundreds of views from every side.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to scan the shell. Once it is scanned, drag up or down on it to cut into it.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 259 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 14, Imaging
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 589,791
- Made from
- When it is scanned, drag up or down on the shell to cut into it.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan or undo the scan | Tap | ||
| Scan | Switch | Off | |
| In the scanner | List | 20 choices | Nautilus shell |
About it
A CT scanner (computed tomography) turns an X-ray tube and a curved row of detectors around the object, taking hundreds of views from every side. A computer works back from those views to how dense the object is at every point of a thin slice. Moving the object through the ring, slice after slice, gives a whole volume.
Here the shell is a chambered nautilus, built for the splash. As the ring passes, the shell turns into its CT volume: bright where the shell is dense, empty where there is air. Drag up or down to cut into the volume and see the chambers and the walls between them. Real scans of a nautilus show the same spiral.
Choose another splash to put in the scanner in the Splash tab. Its CT volume is worked out from its shape: a dense skin around a softer, even inside, since the splash has no real inside to measure.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 113,984 at Low, and up to 850,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
