Ctrl ZDrag to walk around the tree · scroll to come closer · right-drag or Shift-drag to slide the viewClick a branch to cut it back to its joint. Dead twigs drop on their own.Click a shoot tip to stop it lengthening. The buds behind it wake instead.Hold a branch where it should bend, and drag: a wire holds it there. ClickTap a wired branch to adjust it.Bind with or Drag the knob, or a ring: the wide for left and right, the tall for up and down · Shift 5°Drag the knob, or a ring: the wide one turns left and right, the tall one up and down.Choose a piece, then click the soil or a stone. With Turn, click a placed piece to pick it up.Placing a stoneR roll anotherQ E spinW S tipA D leanEnter set it downEsc stopDrag the sun round the dial to turn the tree to it.
All nine recordings are noise-reduced and re-encoded as Opus; the changed CC BY-SA recordings are shared under the same licence. The pieces come from qin handbooks of 1425 to 1876 (public domain).
Textures
Material Maker “Arizona Sandstone” and rock maps (CC0); Poly Haven pine bark and “Farm Soil” by Amal Kumar (CC0)
Tool icons
Poly Haven models (CC0), rendered in ink
Lettering
Painted in Expresii over the skeletons of EMS Readability (SIL Open Font License) and, for the Chinese characters, the stroke medians of Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License)
3D
three.js (MIT)
Growth
Space colonisation (Runions et al. 2007), shadow-grid light (Palubicki et al. 2009), pipe model (Shinozaki et al. 1964)
1Turn
2Prune
3Pinch
4Wire
GGarden
LLight