← labSep 25, 2026

Standing waves

Sound has a shape — you just need something to settle into it.

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Input: a sine-wave sweep from 80 Hz to 1 kHz, plus a voice humming along.

Process: a digital Chladni plate. Particles drift toward the still points of a vibrating surface, and the pitch from an Audio Analysis CHOP picks which pattern they settle into. Higher notes give more intricate shapes.

What we noticed: some notes make clean geometry and some never settle — the in-between pitches are the most interesting.