Splashery
Millipede, a still.
True size6.3cm long2.5 in
Photoreal · Capture

Millipede

No. 69 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: garden millipede, about 5 cm

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A millipede is a long, slow animal with a body made of many rings, and most of the rings carry two pairs of legs.

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

Life size. This millipede is 6.3 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 send a wave down its legs.

About it

A millipede is a long, slow animal with a body made of many rings, and most of the rings carry two pairs of legs. The name means "thousand feet," though most kinds have far fewer. Millipedes munch on dead leaves and rotting wood, which helps turn them back into soil.

Tap it and a wave ripples down its legs as it stretches out straight, then it curls up tighter and relaxes. The leggiest millipede known, found in Australia in 2021, has more than 1,300 legs.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
millipede spec.Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled.scant3dCC 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=millipede<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="millipede"></splashery-toy>

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