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1. StudioNo. 01.03

Sound in a Box

Sand on a ringing plate gathers on the lines that stay still.

Playground

Handling

Tap to ring the cell, or play music (Splash tab): the music's pitch is scaled up to the cell's ultrasound modes.

Its tag

Shelf
1. Studio
Kind
Built from a recipe
Your own
Play or sing to the box
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Apache-2.0, MIT

On the wall it weighs 6.6 KB: 511 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 31,460.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Switch on the soundTap
Switch on the soundSwitchOff
ModeList8 choicesCube 0, 1, 2 mixed: 167 kHz
Bead colorsList6 choicesAmber (as made)

About it

Sand on a ringing plate gathers on the lines that stay still. The same happens in 3D. Here a glass cell 1 cm across holds water and plastic beads, and a transducer underneath fills it with ultrasound at one of its resonances, a standing wave. The acoustic radiation force pushes each bead onto the mode's still surfaces, its nodes (the Gor'kov potential; H. Bruus, 2012).

The cube's modes ring at f = (c / 2L)·√(l² + m² + n²), the round flask's where a spherical Bessel function's slope is zero at the wall: about 75 to 370 kHz, so you hear each one eight octaves down. Tap to ring the chosen mode; tap again to swirl the water.

Or play a song, a built-in tune, or sing: the music's pitch is scaled up to the cell's ultrasound modes, and the nearest rings. Bead colors picks one color, a palette, a flag's colors, or colors by height or by distance from the center. “What are these modes?” in the Splash tab explains each mode. Files stay on your device.

Details

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)

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=chladni-cell
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script>
<splashery-toy toy="chladni-cell"></splashery-toy>

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