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Chladni Plate Resonance (2D)

Top-down Canvas2D Chladni-plate lab: sand grains gradient-descend toward the nodal lines of a driven plate's standing-wave pattern as the resonant mode cycles, with a live displacement-field colour overlay.

Sound & Music2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion renders the same Chladni displacement field as the 3D original from directly above: a colour map shows the plate's instantaneous up/down motion, and thousands of sand grains gradient-descend toward the zero-crossings — the motionless "nodal lines" — while jitter proportional to local amplitude keeps them bouncing off the noisy antinodes, so the pattern visibly self-organizes as the driving mode cycles.

⚙ Under the hood

Canvas2D Chladni-plate simulator: a driven-mode displacement field rendered as a colour overlay, and sand grains that gradient-descend toward its nodal lines while jittering off the antinodes, reproducing the classic 18th-century cymatics experiment.

Chladni PlateResonanceVibrationstanding wavescymatics

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install