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Cymatics modes

Square plate

The classic Chladni figures, drawn as the nodal set of two degenerate modes cancelling each other. Frequencies are for a steel plate 30 cm square and 1 mm thick. Click any figure to hear it and watch the sand find it.

Drumhead

A circular membrane fixed at its rim. The first number counts the nodal diameters, the second the nodal circles. Frequencies are for a head 30 cm across at the tension of a tom.

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