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Kelp, a still.

Family XVIII, Nature

Plate 316

Kelp

Kelp is a giant seaweed, a kind of brown algae that grows in cool, shallow seas.

Playground

Family
Nature
Origin
Raised from a recipe
Habit
Diurnal: kept on the page
Voice
Yes, with the sound on
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap it to bring fish in to nibble the kelp. Hands-on: push the fronds; they sway back.

Notes

It holds on to the rocks with rootlike grips, and little bulbs full of gas keep its long blades floating up toward the light. Kelp can grow so thick that it makes underwater forests, full of fish, snails, sea urchins and sea otters.

The kelp sways gently by itself. Tap it and three little fish swim in, each noses up to a blade for a few nibbles, and the kelp sways away from them, then swings back as they swim off. Giant kelp can grow more than half a meter in a day. With ✋ Hands-on on, push the fronds and they swing after your finger, then sway slowly in the water and drift back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Fish come to nibbleTap
NibbleButton

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,992 at Low, and up to 740,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

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

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