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Pearl

A pearl is a gem made by a living animal.

Lane
21, Gems
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap to open or close the oyster. Hands-on: lift the pearl out, then put it back.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Open or closeTap
OpenSwitchOn
PearlColor#f3ede4
Oyster shellSetting

About it

A pearl is a gem made by a living animal. When an irritant, usually a scrap of the animal's own tissue or a bead put in by a pearl farmer, ends up inside an oyster or mussel, the animal coats it with layer after layer of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same shiny stuff that lines its shell. The thin layers give a pearl its soft glow, called luster.

This oyster starts open, with its pearl inside. Tap it to close the shell; tap again to open it. A pearl can take years to grow, and most pearls sold today are grown on pearl farms. With ✋ Hands-on on, pry the lid open or shut by hand, lift the pearl out and roll it about, then bring it back near its place in the shell and it settles in.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,000 at Low, and up to 730,000 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=pearl<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="pearl"></splashery-toy>

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