Chladni Figures Revisited: A Peek Into The Third Dimension
Martin Skrodzki, Ulrich Reitebuch, and Konrad Polthier

Proceedings of Bridges 2016: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 481–484
Short Papers

Abstract

In his 1802 book ”Acoustics”, Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni describes how to visualize different vibration modes using sand, a metal plate, and a violin bow. We will review the underlying physical and mathematical formulations and lift them to the third dimension. Finally, we present some of the resulting three dimensional Chladni figures.

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