Shells S Shape 10 of 12
Textile
cone
Conus textile
Make the opening a tall narrow slit and the shell becomes a cone.
- W widening
- 1.5
- D distance
- 0
- T travel
- 1.6
- S shape
- tall slit
- turns
- 10.6
The settings our model uses to draw it, tuned by eye against photographs.
The real shell · 9–10 cm, up to 15
The pattern looks like Rule 30, a one-line rule where each cell answers its two neighbours.
It is venomous: about 30 human deaths have been put down to cone snails.
- Lives
- Red Sea and the tropical Indo-Pacific
- In the exhibition
- Room 2, Four numbers: one of three shells for S, the shape of the opening.