Diatom

A diatom is a single-celled alga with a shell made of silica, the material in glass.

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Shelf: Tiny World
Kind: Built from a recipe
Sound: Yes
Hands-on: Yes
Licenses: Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap it to make the glass shell glint and open.

Its controls

Control	Kind	Start
Glint and open	Tap
Open	Button
Glass	Color	#7fd6d0

About it

A diatom is a single-celled alga with a shell made of silica, the material in glass. Its patterned shell, called a frustule, has two overlapping halves, rather like a box and its lid. Diatoms live in fresh and salt water and use sunlight to make food, releasing oxygen.

Tap it and a glint of light runs across the glass, then the two halves lift apart to show the golden cell inside and close again; real diatoms don't open like this. Diatoms make about a fifth of the oxygen on Earth.

Details

Splats: Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 55,342 at Low, and up to 720,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

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https://splashery.app/play/?toy=diatom

<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="diatom"></splashery-toy>