Plate 142
Crystal
A cluster of clear crystals, captured from photos and drawn with splats.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Nocturnal: kept on a dark stage
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it to turn it round; drag to turn it yourself.
Notes
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
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Homemade Crystal GemConverted, decimated, recentered and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)