Shells D Distance 04 of 12
Ram's horn
squid
Spirula spirula
Hold the opening well away from the axis and the coils stop touching.
- W widening
- 2.05
- D distance
- 0.56
- T travel
- 0
- S shape
- round
- turns
- 3.2
The settings our model uses to draw it, tuned by eye against photographs.
The real shell · the squid is 35–45 mm
The shell is inside the animal. It is so light that it floats ashore far from where the squid lived.
By day the squid lives down to 1,000 m; at night it rises to 100–300 m.
- Lives
- Deep tropical oceans; the shells wash up on beaches worldwide
- In the exhibition
- Room 2, Four numbers: one of three shells for D, how far from the axis.