{"id":46121,"date":"2014-10-23T04:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T08:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=46121"},"modified":"2014-10-23T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:52:06","slug":"vibrating-bed-mystery-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/10\/23\/vibrating-bed-mystery-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vexing Problem Yields Unexpected Gifts: Wondrous Images of Vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we first wrote about the mysterious mechanical vibration that shakes us awake at night<\/a>, we’ve tried endless fixes to no avail and at times, have despaired of finding a solution. But amidst this difficulty have come many unexpected gifts, in the form of strangers reaching out to help, and research leading to rich layers of information about sound, acoustics and materials, and seeing our own tenaciousness in the face of a problem.<\/p>\n

The latest gift came\u00a0as we were following more trails about\u00a0how frequencies\u00a0work, having learned\u00a0the specific freqencies\u00a0of our vexing\u00a0vibrations. We stumbled on a trove of startlingly beautiful images of vibrations
\n<\/a>made on a\u00a0Chladni plate<\/a>,\u00a0first devised in 1787. Fine powders are sprinkled on a metal plate that is made to vibrate; they settle into unique patterns determined by their frequency.
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Foster used a Chladni plate the like one above\u00a0to make a stunning Flickr portfolio of\u00a0designs<\/a> that occur at various hertz…<\/p>\n

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….marvelous abstractions created by sound and vibration…<\/p>\n

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Some are mandala-like, some wondrous\u00a0modernist geometries…<\/p>\n

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All provide a kind of comfort; we know that the irritating vibration is also a harmonic capable of great beauty.<\/p>\n

View more images of various frequencies here<\/a>\u00a0and here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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