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Eigendrum

Basel Ashraf made a web app where you can draw a drum and hear how it would sound.

A drumhead clamped at its rim cannot vibrate in just any shape. It can only vibrate in a specific, discrete set of standing waves, each with its own frequency, and both the shapes and the frequencies are decided entirely by the outline.

Don’t worry, “there is deliberately no Delaunay triangulation here.”

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