Splashery

A Field Guide to the

Splashes

460 objects you can turn, poke, paint, blow on, drop, take apart, and share.

72 captures of real things and 388 raised from recipes, on 29 shelves. In your browser, with no install and no account. The plates come off the page.

By Ryan Kamp

Playground Contents

Pl. 150Felted FoxTouch it, and it comes off the page.

Before you begin

How to use this book

  1. Find it

    Go by family in the Contents, by name in the Index, or answer two questions at a time in the Key. Or run a thumb down the painted tabs at the edge of the page: the plates riffle by, and letting go opens the one you stopped on.

  2. Lift it

    Every Splash here is ink until you touch it. Lift a plate off the page and the object itself turns in your hand, made of soft colored splats.

  3. Take it outside

    The Playground is the field. There you poke it, paint it, blow on it, drop it, and take it apart, then share it by link or QR code.

the brown spots on the title page are called foxing. not his fault.

From the plates

Ink until you touch it

72

Captured

Real things, and a few modeled by hand, taken as splats from many views. Each plate names its source and its license.

388

Raised from recipes

Atoms, planets, math, games, and music. Each is built in the page by a recipe when you open it.

29 families

Contents

  1. IStudio1–23
  2. IIPictures and Pages24–29
  3. IIIAI and Computing30–46
  4. IVScience47–55
  5. VSpace56–92
  6. VIMath93–110
  7. VIIAtoms111–119
  8. VIIIPhotoreal120–198
  9. IXLab199–201
  10. XShapes202–204
  11. XIArcade205–216
  12. XIIToys217–232
  13. XIIIBalls233–257
  14. XIVImaging258–263
  15. XVEarth and Maps264–271
  16. XVIMusic272–280
  17. XVIIEveryday Things281–293
  18. XVIIINature294–316
  19. XIXWeather & Fire317–329
  20. XXFood330–357
  21. XXIGems358–365
  22. XXIIBody366–372
  23. XXIIITiny World373–395
  24. XXIVClothing396–399
  25. XXVMedieval400–409
  26. XXVIAnimals410–422
  27. XXVIIHolidays423–430
  28. XXVIIIVehicles431–444
  29. XXIXLandmarks445–460

Key to the Splashes

What have you found?

  1. 1aIt is something people made
  2. 1bIt is not a made thing, or it is a tool or an idea

Two choices at a time, down to one of 460. Open the Key.

The Field Kit

Collect your own

Tools that turn your own photo or video into a Splash on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Everything in the Field Kit

Specimen labels

A label that is also a picture

Video QR, a QR code that is also a video.

Video QR

A QR reader only looks at the middle of each square.

All the QR codes

The rest happens outdoors.

Playground

This copy

Four editions

Set in Old Standard, Gravitas One, Pinyon Script, and Reenie Beanie. Every source is credited on its plate and in the colophon.