Arcade

12 Splashes.

1. ShardballA ball, a dish and a dome of bricks.
2. LongtailA string of glass beads crawls from tile to tile, one tile a beat.
3. Grain GardenEvery grain here is one splat, moved by a simple rule sixty times a second.
4. Page BreakerShardball with your own page.
5. StrataStones of our own shapes fall down a well between stone walls, ten wide and twenty deep.
6. Volley TableA rally on a felt table against the computer.
7. Stone BeltThe rocks here are the real shapes of seven asteroids, Bennu, Itokawa, Eros, Kleopatra, Geographos, Toutatis and Golevka, from NASA's public-domain models.
8. Soft LandingOn the Moon it comes from the laser altimeter and camera of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (the CGI Moon Kit): Tycho crater, Copernicus crater and the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed.
9. Night Owl PinballA pinball table whose steel ball is moved by Splashery's own physics engine, the same one the Hands-on switch uses.
10. Cast a ShadowA carved block hangs between a lamp and a wall, and every piece of it casts its own small shadow.
11. Photo DashA photo becomes the landscape.
12. Note RiderA song comes down the track as glowing notes: its melody, low notes in the low lane and high notes in the high one.