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Alum Crystal, a still.

16. PhotorealNo. 16.24

Alum Crystal

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

Playground

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

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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