Forms of the Plane · 3D
Chladni Cube
Sand figures on every face of a vibrating cube
Give the Chladni plate depth and let a whole cube ring. Every face carries its own sand figure, and looking straight at one face you see the flat pattern again.
- Faces
- 6
- Mode
- (n, m)
Turn it in your hands, strike it to hear the chord of its edges, slice it with a plane.
Facts
- Each face shows the same standing-wave mode as the flat plate.
- Real solids vibrate in 3D modes whose nodal lines cover their whole surface.
- The Cymatics tab shows sand finding these lines in real time.
Across the dimensions
- Its slice Chladni FigureThe plate is one face of a vibrating cube, and every face carries its own sand figure.
