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Bonsai

Nature, built from a recipe. Row 11, column 10 of the code.

A bonsai is a real tree kept small by careful growing in a shallow pot.

Shelf
Nature
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
CC0

How to play

Tap it to grow a new branch, then trim it. Hands-on: pull a branch; it springs back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Grow a branch, then trim itTap
Grow and trimButton
PotColor#2e5f80

About it

A bonsai is a real tree kept small by careful growing in a shallow pot. Its keeper trims the branches and roots and shapes the trunk, sometimes for many years, so it looks like a tiny old tree from the wild. The art grew in China and was refined in Japan.

Tap it and a new branch grows out of the trunk with a pad of leaves on its end; then a pair of bonsai scissors slides in and snips it off, the cut piece drops onto the moss and is cleared away, and the stub heals over. Pick the pot's color in the Splash tab. Some bonsai trees are hundreds of years old. With ✋ Hands-on on, pull a branch's foliage and it bends after your finger; let go and it springs back.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 55,364 at Low, and up to 880,000 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
scissors cut.wav (bonsai-snip.mp3)mywhatsCC0 1.0

Share it

The back of the picture is this page's QR code: flip it, and point a phone at 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=bonsai
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="bonsai"></splashery-toy>

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