Plate 152
Murex Shell
A murex shell, 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 round; drag to turn it yourself.
Notes
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)