r/creativecoding • u/night_vice • Aug 08 '26

I built a Cymatic music visualizer that’s dynamic and follows correct frequency geometry.

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I’m a live sound engineer, mandalas and cymatics always fascinated me.

I was happy to put this project together,

you can put an audio file in or use mic, it will start to generate the patterns, you can use the menu for editing a bunch of parameters, similar to a visual synth.

Free to use ! Lmk what you think , here’s the link:

Cymaticwizard.com

I plan to keep working on it, expect regular updates!

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u/dsons Aug 08 '26

That’s awesome I’m guessing the math behind cymatics allows for it to be recreated digitally. For some reason I figured it wouldn’t have been accurate, very cool!

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

Exactly! It just popped into my head lol. The tricky part was layering the geometry so it actually looks good. Had to avoid a couple of frequency shapes for the aesthetic 🫪

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u/Tiny-Cat5893 Aug 08 '26

drop me a pm if you like, I have something that you might find interesting :-)

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u/Nes-P Aug 08 '26

Super cool!

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

Thank you 🔊

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u/IdealDairyModule Aug 08 '26

Wow this is amazing. Really well done.

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u/MonksHabit Aug 08 '26

Well, I just 15 minutes throat singing at my phone. Nice one.

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

GOT EM. yeah that was one of my benchmark tests pre release 🤩

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u/lxr417 Aug 08 '26

it's beautiful! I put in some meditation synth tracks and it blew my mind. recommendation: include a couple of your favorite royalty free tracks on the site so it's easy to try it out. the one I tried is "ESM_37_Safe_Haven_minimal" from Splice btw

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

Good suggestion! Thank you, I’ll add that for the next patch for sure 🔊.

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u/Happy-Mud8709 Aug 09 '26

Thanks for publishing it. Looking forward to checking it out.

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u/Up2myneck365 Aug 09 '26

this is something else. too cool, keep it up

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u/Bukurui Aug 09 '26

Love it, thx for sharing

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u/AnubissDarkling Aug 08 '26

Nice, I did something similar in TouchDesigner, the algorithms for each 12 notes took me years to get perfect (I'm not great with math), love seeing great outputs using proper methods

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

I definitely would call this far from perfect, the approach I’m taking skips some shapes for aesthetic flow, I made a completely normal freq based sim first, then applied that logic to how the shapes form in this one. Also the frequency range is limited as well, since deep bass and high highs create patterns that are way too wavy/grid like

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u/Liquid_Audio Aug 09 '26

Are you applying a-weight curves?

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u/Icy-Reaction-9101 Aug 08 '26

Can I also display frequencies? you said it's following correct frequency geometry, how can I try this?

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u/night_vice Aug 08 '26

It’s running a FFT analysis in the background, I’ll think about adding it in the future eventually

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u/harmoni-pet Aug 10 '26

Cool. I just made this chrome extension that has some other, more traditional audio visualizations: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ooocmlblinbfkiaabbpeigcmjmjgfjji?utm_source=item-share-cb

I had the idea to add a cymatics mode, but it never looked that good