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Cone Shell, a still.
True size9cm long3.5 in
Photoreal · Capture

Cone Shell

No. 94 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: textile cone shell, about 9 cm

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The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats.

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

Life size. This cone shell is 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 it on its point; drag to turn it yourself.

About it

The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats. Cone snails live on tropical reefs and hunt with a tiny harpoon that carries venom; the netted pattern of gold and brown tents grows at the shell's lip, line by line.

Tap it and it turns one way and the other on its point. Drag to circle it and follow the pattern.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Leopard (textile) cone shellConverted, recentered and scaled; the putty it stood on cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file.Alfred DuemleinCC 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=cone-shell<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="cone-shell"></splashery-toy>

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