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Seashell Spiral

Seashell Spiral, a still.

Many seashells grow in a spiral.

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Shelf
Math
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap it to hear the sea in the shell.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Hear the seaTap
ListenButton

About it

Many seashells grow in a spiral. As the animal inside grows, it adds new shell at the opening, each turn wider than the one before but the same shape, so the shell gets bigger without changing its form. Mathematicians call this a logarithmic spiral.

People say you can hear the sea in a shell. Tap it and three soft swells of sea-blue light run down the spiral to the opening, and with each one a ripple rolls out of the mouth, widening and fading like a wave. The sound in a real shell is the noise around you, echoing inside it.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 51,000 at Low, and up to 620,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

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

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