16. PhotorealNo. 16.06
May Beetle
The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring.
Handling
Tap it to lift its wing cases and fan its antennae.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 16. Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
On the wall it weighs 12.9 KB: 1,022 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 300,000.
About it
The May beetle, or cockchafer, is a big brown beetle that flies on warm evenings in late spring. Its hard wing cases cover a pair of thin flying wings folded underneath, and its antennae end in little fans that it spreads to smell the air.
Tap it and the wing cases lift and part with a shiver, and the fans spread, then everything folds away again. A cockchafer lives most of its life underground as a white grub, eating roots for three or four years before it digs out as a beetle.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| MAY-BEETLE-HIRESConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentered and scaled. | trilithon | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
