Splashery

Crystal. The same points, seen from the side. Drag down to look at it from above.

About 8 MB, on this tap only

Crystal

A cluster of clear crystals, captured from photos and drawn with splats.

PlaygroundHow to play

Shelf
Photoreal
Kind
Capture
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD

How to play

Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.

About it

A cluster of clear crystals, captured from photos and drawn with splats. A crystal forms when atoms stack in a repeating pattern, usually while a mineral-rich liquid cools or dries slowly. Slow growth gives sharp faces that bend and bounce light.

Tap it and the crystal turns once round, so the glints move across its faces. Drag to turn it: the glints move across the faces because this capture keeps a little view-dependent shine.

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Homemade Crystal GemConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file.Eric CornwellCC BY 4.0

Libraries

MIT, BSD
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)

Share it

This page's code, the same one the top of its block shows. The link below 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=crystal-gem
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="crystal-gem"></splashery-toy>

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