Aisle 8No. 134 of 460
Splashery
Mandeltorus
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
Mandeltorus
The mandeltorus is a fractal: a shape whose small parts repeat the pattern of the whole, over and over, smaller and smaller.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to spin its rings opposite ways.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 134 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 mandeltorus is a fractal: a shape whose small parts repeat the pattern of the whole, over and over, smaller and smaller. It is a piece of math art, made by a computer from a formula related to the Mandelbrot set and bent into a ring, or torus.
Tap it and its rings turn opposite ways in bands with a cyan glow, then lock back into place. The mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot made up the word "fractal" in 1975; fractal patterns turn up in nature too, in ferns, coastlines and snowflakes.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| MandelTorus 4,12,8,1.5 (Spirula Studio)Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | harry7557558 | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
