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Murex Shell

Photoreal, capture. Row 6, column 20 of the code.

A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.

About it

A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats. This shape is the Venus comb murex, a sea snail whose long spines guard it from crabs and fish. The shell is made of calcium carbonate that the snail builds, a little at a time, from the sea water.

Tap it and the shell turns once round, showing its spines from every side. Drag to turn it and look at the fine, comb-like spines.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Murex ShellConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file.RigstersCC BY 4.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

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

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