A cymatics playground
Integrating Sound
integratingsound.comWhere sound becomes form: a live Chladni plate you can play, and an honest field guide to vibration. The physics of standing waves, the people who built cymatics, and the frequencies living things make and hear, with every claim marked as physics, history or belief.
- The Board
- A Canvas 2D simulation of sand settling onto a vibrating plate’s nodal lines, square or circular (Bessel modes for the circle), driven by live Web Audio oscillators, so the tone you hear is the figure you see.
- Two tones
- One tone or two at once, met at their shared nodes or overlaid whole, in four waveforms, with an auto-sweep through the modes and a slow settle that lets you watch the grains migrate.
- The Resonant World
- Interactive explorations of what organisms make and hear, from infrasound to ultrasound, and of Earth’s Schumann resonance, kept honest.
- Reading
- Light and dark themes, motion that stills for those who ask for less, and a plate that pauses when it’s off screen.