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Gyroid

A gyroid is a curving surface that splits space into two tangled mazes of tunnels that never meet.

Lane
6, Math
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap to make it breathe. Pick a cube or a ball in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Breathe in and outTap
BreatheButton
ShapeList2 choicesCube

About it

A gyroid is a curving surface that splits space into two tangled mazes of tunnels that never meet. It has no straight lines and no flat parts, and it repeats forever in every direction. Alan Schoen, a scientist working for NASA, found it in 1970. Nature makes it too: tiny gyroid crystals in some butterfly wings give them their shiny green color.

Tap it and it breathes: the surface slides along itself, so one set of tunnels swells while the other narrows, then the other way, and it settles. In the Splash tab, cut it into a cube or a ball.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 710,000 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=gyroid<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="gyroid"></splashery-toy>

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