// Scene · Cymatics & the physics of vibration
Chladni
The Cartesian plate — cos(nπx)cos(mπy) drawn as the nodal grid sand would settle into.
How Chladni moves with your music
The music sweeps the mode numbers, so the whole figure re-forms as the track moves.
Like every Luxaudica scene, Chladni is generative — drawn live from the music rather than played back from a file — and deeply reactive: bass moves the big shapes, treble the fine detail, and the song's build-ups and drops steer the whole arc. It holds one intentional colour family per moment and shifts with the song's harmony, and it settles when the music stops.
Make it yours
Shape Chladni live with intensity, speed, warp, glow and Punch (one lever for how hard the picture rides the music), grade the colour, and save the result as a look you can recall by keypad, MIDI, OSC or a sentence to the AI copilot. Send it fullscreen to any display in deep 10-bit colour.