
16. PhotorealNo. 16.24
Alum Crystal
A pink block of alum, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
Handling
Tap it to turn the crystal on its block; drag to turn it yourself.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 16. Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
On the wall it weighs 12.3 KB: 1,008 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 300,000.
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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| alum-stoneConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. The source has no spherical harmonics. | Arshad | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)