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Crystal, a still.
True size10cm tall3.9 in
Photoreal · Capture

Crystal

No. 97 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: quartz cluster specimen, 10 cm

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A cluster of clear crystals, captured from photos and drawn with splats.

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

Life size. This crystal is 10 cm tall 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 round; drag to turn it yourself.

About it

A cluster of clear crystals, captured from photos and drawn with splats. A crystal forms when atoms stack in a repeating pattern, usually while a mineral-rich liquid cools or dries slowly. Slow growth gives sharp faces that bend and bounce light.

Tap it and the crystal turns once round, so the glints move across its faces. Drag to turn it: the glints move across the faces because this capture keeps a little view-dependent shine.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Homemade Crystal GemConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file.Eric CornwellCC 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=crystal-gem<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="crystal-gem"></splashery-toy>

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