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Murex Shell, a still.

Fig. 152. §8 Photoreal

Murex Shell

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

PlaygroundHow to play

1Facts

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

2How to play

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

3About 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.

4Sources and credits

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

5Libraries

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

6Share 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>

7Nearby