Aisle 8No. 125 of 460
Splashery
May Beetle
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
May Beetle
The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to lift its wing cases and fan its antennae.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 125 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 May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring. Its hard wing cases cover a pair of thin flying wings folded underneath, and its antennae end in little fans that it spreads to smell the air.
Tap it and the wing cases lift and part with a shiver, and the fans spread, then everything folds away again. A cockchafer lives most of its life underground as a white grub, eating roots for three or four years before it digs out as a beetle.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| MAY-BEETLE-HIRESConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | trilithon | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
