Aisle 8No. 152 of 460
Splashery
Murex 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
Murex Shell
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 152 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
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats. This shape is the Venus comb murex, a sea snail whose long spines guard it from crabs and fish. The shell is made of calcium carbonate that the snail builds, a little at a time, from the sea water.
Tap it and the shell turns once round, showing its spines from every side. Drag to turn it and look at the fine, comb-like spines.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Murex ShellConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Rigsters | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
