Plate 164
Cone Shell
The shell of a textile cone snail, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it to turn it on its point; drag to turn it yourself.
Notes
Cone snails live on tropical reefs and hunt with a tiny harpoon that carries venom; the netted pattern of gold and brown tents grows at the shell's lip, line by line.
Tap it and it turns one way and the other on its point. Drag to circle it and follow the pattern.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard (textile) cone shellConverted, recentered and scaled; the putty it stood on cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)