Photoreal · Capture
Murex Shell
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- Splats
- 300,000 in its file
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
Fire it at
How to play
Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.
About it
A murex shell, captured from photos and drawn with splats. This shape is the Venus comb murex, a sea snail whose long spines guard it from crabs and fish. The shell is made of calcium carbonate that the snail builds, a little at a time, from the sea water.
Tap it and the shell turns once round, showing its spines from every side. Drag to turn it and look at the fine, comb-like spines.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Murex ShellConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Rigsters | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
