Digital Cymatics

Tap the plate to disturb the grains

Digital Cymatics · 200 Hz · circular

Cymatics Studio

Make sound visible.

circular

200 Hz · G3

Higher frequencies produce more intricate nodal patterns.

0.50

Shift the balance between the two vibration modes that form the field.

idle

Microphone input stays in your browser and is never recorded or sent.

25k grains

Grain densitySettling speed 1.0×

How this works

Cymatics makes vibration visible. Grains move away from parts of a plate that are moving and collect along nodal lines that remain still.

This simulation approximates Chladni patterns. Square plates use sine eigenmodes. Circular plates use Bessel function eigenmodes.