Hello everyone,
I’m wondering, is there any plugin/script you know of that creates realistic cymatic patterns/curves based on the frequency waveform?
I mean actual shapes of it, not the representative fractals like many does online…
The actual 2D representative of 3D forms like sound plates.
Any idea, anyone?
Parakeet plugin for GH has a component for it here
To actually create those shapes, one has to first understand the physical phenomenon. I have not research this topic, but it seems to be the collection of sand at the valleys of certain eigenform of a circular plate, i.e. the contour at a lower z-coordinate.
Geometrically this is not so hard, once the eigenform has been found. Nearly all FE packages have the eigenmodes natively implemented. So I would try out Alpaca4D (free, open source) or Karamba3D.
Some years ago I made a small Christmas present, by simulating the eigenform of a rectangular plate with certain supports and just milled the result. I guess the shape you are after are just valleys of those shapes - but I might be wrong.
p.s.: not sure, but there might be analytical solution to these shapes as well. Somewhere hidden in a crazy textbook or sth
