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Chladni Plate
193,030 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Studio · Built from a recipe
Chladni Plate
In 1787 Ernst Chladni sprinkled sand on a metal plate and drew a violin bow along its edge.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap to bow the plate and watch the sand find its still lines. In the Splash tab, sing to it or play your audio.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 2 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 1, Studio
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 193,030
- Your own
- Sing or play to the plate
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Apache-2.0, MIT
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow the plate | Tap | ||
| Bow the plate | Switch | Off | |
| Mode | List | 8 choices | Mode 2, 3 (+): 780 Hz |
| Sand colors | List | 4 choices | Sand (as made) |
About it
In 1787 Ernst Chladni sprinkled sand on a metal plate and drew a violin bow along its edge. The plate shook, and the sand jumped away from the places that moved and gathered on the lines that stayed still, a different picture for each pitch. Those still lines are called nodal lines.
Tap to bow the plate: it hums, and every grain hops and slides until the figure appears. Tap again to stir the sand up. Mode picks the pitch and the pattern; Sand colors picks one color, a few colors, or a flag's colors.
Or sing to it, or open a song: the note it hears rings the plate's nearest mode, and the sand sets off for that figure at once; a new note moves it on, and silence leaves it put. A song's strongest pitch, moved by octaves into the plate's range, plays it as the song goes, and the file stays on your device. This splash uses the classic square-plate model, cos(nπx)·cos(mπy) ± cos(mπx)·cos(nπy) = 0, with a pitch that grows with n² + m².
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 52,942 at Low, and up to 300,000 at Max
- Your own files
- audio/*, .mp3, .wav, .ogg, .m4a, .flac, .aac, .opus
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Libraries
- Apache-2.0
- Depth Anything V2 Small, quantized ONNX (lane LSTUDIO, copied from Splashery)
- MIT
- ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
