Wavefield Organ
detecting…Tilt your phone to steer six physical wave-sources across a vibrating plate — a real 2D wave-equation field blooms into Chladni interference you can play with your whole body. Each source rings one just-intonation partial; the ripple you see is the sound's envelope.
Steer with tilt on a phone, or WASD / arrow keys here. The plate keeps rippling on its own until you take over.
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A genuine finite-difference solver for d²u/dt² = c²∇²u (damped) runs on a clamped plate — WebGPU compute when available, the identical model on the CPU otherwise. Continuously-forced sources build standing waves; the point-field advects down the gradient of the wave energy so the particles pool on the nodal lines, exactly as sand does on Ernst Chladni's plates.
Lineage: Chladni / cymatics, the 2D wave equation, and the GPU point-based wavefields of TouchDesigner's POP (Point Operator) components (2025). This is a true PDE, not a log-polar / breathing warp. Full notes in the README.