Airport X-ray
An airport scanner sends a fan of X-rays through each bag as the belt carries it past, and a row of detectors measures what gets through, one line at a time.
This picture is a cloud of paint. You can , , , , , , and .
Paint with your finger. It stays on these splats, wherever they go next.
Your paint is on this cloud. to see the sharp picture.
- Shelf
- Imaging
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
Tap to send the next bag through the scanner and watch its X-ray picture build.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send the next bag | Tap | ||
| Send a bag | Button |
About it
An airport scanner sends a fan of X-rays through each bag as the belt carries it past, and a row of detectors measures what gets through, one line at a time. Most scanners measure two energies at once. Comparing them tells light elements from heavy ones, so the screen colors each thing by what it is made of: orange for organic matter (clothes, food, paper, plastic), green for mixed and light inorganic matter (glass, ceramics, plastics with fillers), blue for metal, and black where almost nothing gets through.
The bags and the pictures here are built for the splash, with simplified materials. Tap to send the next bag.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 120,004 at Low, and up to 780,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
In The Splash Manual
Share it
This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.
https://splashery.app/play/?toy=airport-xray
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="airport-xray"></splashery-toy>
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