Splashery
Alum Crystal, a still.
True size6.9cm long2.7 in
Photoreal · Capture

Alum Crystal

No. 73 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: alum block, about 8 cm

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A pink block of alum, captured from photos and drawn with splats.

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
Alum Crystal at its real size

Life size. This alum crystal is 6.9 cm long on your screen too, give or take a tenth on a phone. Hold a real one next to it.

How to play, in the Playground

Tap it to turn the crystal on its block; drag to turn it yourself.

About it

A pink block of alum, captured from photos and drawn with splats. Alum is a mineral salt that people have used for centuries to clear muddy water, to fix dye in cloth and, as a crystal stick, to stop small shaving nicks from bleeding.

Tap it and the crystal is turned a quarter of the way round on its block. Drag around it to see the frosted, uneven faces and the dark stand it sits on.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
alum-stoneConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. The source has no spherical harmonics.ArshadCC BY 4.0

Libraries

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

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

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