14. FoodNo. 14.11
Donut
A frosted donut with sprinkles, built by the computer from a simple ring shape.
Handling
Tap it to break it apart and put it back together.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 14. Food
- Kind
- Generated shape
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
On the wall it weighs 6.5 KB: 509 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 300,000.
About it
A frosted donut with sprinkles, built by the computer from a simple ring shape. To a mathematician, a ring like this is a torus. In topology, the math of shapes that can stretch but not tear, a donut and a coffee mug count as the same shape, because each has exactly one hole.
Tap it and it snaps into chunks that fly apart and tumble, showing the dough inside, while the sprinkles spray off. Then it all flies back together. The Make tab builds shapes like this from a shape, a palette and a seed.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| bread slice serrated knife cut and rip (donut-tear.mp3) | spanrucker | CC0 1.0 |
