Aisle 6No. 105 of 460
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Surface Plotter
690,118 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
Surface Plotter
A surface plot is a graph in 3D.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to raise the surface. Pick one, or type your own, in the Splash tab.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 105 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 6, Math
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 690,118
- Your own
- Your own surface
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raise it | Tap | ||
| a | Slider | 0 to 100% | 50% |
| Rise | Button | ||
| Surface | List | 17 choices | Sombrero |
About it
A surface plot is a graph in 3D. For each point on a flat floor, with its x and y, the equation gives a height z, so the graph becomes a landscape of hills, valleys and saddles. Colors show how high each part is.
Tap it and the surface lies flat, then rises out of the sheet and ripples, twists or breathes as a number called a changes. Pick one of 16 famous surfaces in the Splash tab, such as the sombrero, the saddle or Rosenbrock's banana valley, which is used to test computer methods that hunt for the lowest point. Or type your own: z = … with x and y, or with r and θ.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 72,936 at Low, and up to 830,000 at Max
- Your own files
- .txt
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
