Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

http://www.ted.com Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.

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[Jangaboo]

i would like to see Animal collective under Cymatics

[baronmorris]

most people were quite illiterate in the middle ages. duh.

if you don't recognize the strong and enduring anti-intellectual role of the church, which didn't even want to admit the heliocentric model of our planetary system, which in fact killed people whose scientific ideas it did not like, than you are obviously too attached to your dogma to form an opinion based on fact,.. which of course you are free to do... just pls quit pretending there's anything intellectual about it.

peace ;-)

[ChristinaShawn]

Gregorian Chant utilized the original hertz vibrations that create a dynamic change on the body (healing, alleviating depression, curing sickness, can survive on less than 3 hours of sleep a day etc). Google "Good Vibrations" for the research

[midinerd]

@Jesuisquejesuis I'm not saying 'old' like 2009 old. I'm saying old like "keynote on windows 3.1 for workgroups" old.

[Jesuisquejesuis]

@midinerd  So????

[TheB0P]

@divebrakes Amen. Helmholtz is the man.

[midinerd]

this stuff is old.

[JaeRootzFAE]

@saifurrt why you say that. this is my first time watchin this vid

[divebrakes]

Why did he leave out Helmholtz's volume "On the Sensations of Tone>"

[saifurrt]

this Evan Grant really does talk shit.

he has no grasp of anything.

[1533you]

@baronmorris dude, please learn some history before you give comments, because what you wrote here is a sign of purest ignorance. Church didn't want to admit heliocentric model WITHOUT EVIDENCE - if that's "anti-intellectual" then you must admit that eg. denying astrology is "anti-intellectual" as well. all you said is based on popular legends about middle ages and Church, so please realize that history also IS science and quit insulting it by telling fairy tales in public. thank you

[RoORoO0love]

This is an awsome vedio that I started out watching it in my Tech class .. Awsome info a must see !