A tiny cymatics toy that models both a plate and a drumhead
Olivier Giulieri's MIT-licensed demo computes square-plate trigonometry and circular Bessel functions, with no libraries at all.
github.com ↗4 min
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WEB AUDIO · PLAYABLE IN-BROWSER
Instruments
A growing rack of instruments synthesised entirely in Web Audio: a Juno-106 polysynth, the RE-201 Space Echo tape delay, a gesture Theremin and more. No plugins, no samples; play them in the page.
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R&D · SOUND & PROGRAMMABLE LIGHT
Further Cymatics
New cymatics rigs that pair sound with programmable light — RGB LED ring arrays driven by Arduino and DMX, temporal-aliasing tests that phase light against sound for smooth linear motion, and new vessel geometries in size, depth and multi-ring form.
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R&D · SOUND MADE VISIBLE
Cymatics in Bubbles
Spherical cymatics in hard-to-pop, high-performance bubbles — sound vibrations visualised as 3D patterns in thin films, swirling with thin-film interference colour. A multisensory study where scientific research meets artistic expression.
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INTERACTIVE · LIVE IN BROWSER
Cymatics Simulator
An interactive cymatics simulator and live-display research rig — vibrating water at key frequencies to induce complex geometry. Turn on the sound, scrub the timeline and bounce between frequencies to see how tone and resonance shape matter.
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View allA browser particle toy posted as a cymatics playground
Real-time visuals with sliders for particle count, force and trail opacity — and its author's own honest label.
cymatics.grok.me ↗5 min
Two hours of simulated Chladni patterns, drawn by code not filmed
Eidophone publishes a long-form ambient loop of plate patterns and is unusually straight about the fact that none of it is a real plate.
youtube.com ↗120 min
Rubens tube, Chladni plate and levitation in one syllabus lecture
An hour-plus classroom lecture that treats all three as applications of the same standing-wave physics, with board work and demonstrations.
youtube.com ↗68 min
Schladni solves real plate eigenmodes in your browser
A WebGPU simulator that uses Kirchhoff–Love plate theory and real material constants instead of the usual closed-form shortcut.
github.com ↗6 min
Where the 432 Hz claim actually comes from
Wikipedia's concert pitch article traces the tuning to the Schiller Institute and scientific pitch, and is blunt about the health claims.
en.wikipedia.org ↗14 min
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Theraminimal
A browser-based revival of analog sound generators. This theremin doesn't just respond to you; given freedom, it plays itself, wandering through gliding pitches indefinitely.
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