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Armillary Sphere, a still.

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Armillary Sphere

An armillary sphere made by Franciszek Słupski in 1771, scanned and drawn with splats.

PlaygroundHow to play

Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
CC BY 4.0

How to play

Tap it to turn the inner rings; drag to turn it.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Turn the ringsTap
Turn the ringsButton

About it

An armillary sphere made by Franciszek Słupski in 1771, scanned and drawn with splats. Its rings stand for the great circles of the sky: the equator, the tropics, the band the Sun follows through the year, round a small Earth at the middle. Astronomers used such spheres to teach how the sky moves.

Tap it and the inner rings turn inside the frame.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 77,400 at Low, and up to 286,381 at Max

Sources and credits

WorkByLicense
Armillary sphere (1771)Baked into splats; the glass over the compass left out.Virtual Museums of MałopolskaCC BY 4.0

Share it

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

Straight down

Through the middle of the world, the far side is Crystal Lattice, on Atoms.

Fall throughIt stands 2.7° from the exact far side, the closest of any Splash.