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Airport X-ray, a still.

Imaging · Built from a recipe

Airport X-ray

An airport scanner sends a fan of X-rays through each bag as the belt carries it past, and a row of detectors measures what gets through, one line at a time.

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Splats
550,019 in its file
Shelf
Imaging
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

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How to play

Tap to send the next bag through the scanner and watch its X-ray picture build.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Send the next bagTap
Send a bagButton

About it

An airport scanner sends a fan of X-rays through each bag as the belt carries it past, and a row of detectors measures what gets through, one line at a time. Most scanners measure two energies at once. Comparing them tells light elements from heavy ones, so the screen colors each thing by what it is made of: orange for organic matter (clothes, food, paper, plastic), green for mixed and light inorganic matter (glass, ceramics, plastics with fillers), blue for metal, and black where almost nothing gets through.

The bags and the pictures here are built for the splash, with simplified materials. Tap to send the next bag.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 120,004 at Low, and up to 780,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

In The Splash Manual

  1. Chapter 7: Real data as splats

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https://splashery.app/play/?toy=airport-xray<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="airport-xray"></splashery-toy>

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