OLI

Sound made visible

OLI

Every soundhas a shape.

A precision tone generator driving a real Chladni plate. Play a frequency and watch the grains find its nodal lines — the same physics as sand on a vibrating metal plate, computed live, times a second.

Open OLI
Free · no account · installable · works offline
presets categories Real Chladni physics Your own audio Build & download

Everything is driven by the sound.

Not animation on a timer — the live signal, measured and turned into the picture.

A real plate

Grains migrate down the vibration gradient and stick where the plate can no longer lift them — the two mechanisms that gather real sand into Chladni's figures. How much sand is yours to set, from % of a full bed to %. Measured: 83% of grains land on the nodal set, and the figure holds still once formed.

Your own audio

Load a file, or open the mic and play an instrument at it. Every strong partial drives the plate at once, so a chord shows the interference of that chord — a -point transform, low enough to hear a bass guitar's open E. Record what the mic hears and keep it. Nothing is uploaded; it never leaves your device.

Honestly labelled

Planetary, cosmic, Vedic and brainwave frequencies — each marked measured, exact, or popular-but-unproven. No health claims, ever.