Lϕ = λMϕ

Can you hear the shape of a mesh?

Every shape has natural vibration modes — the eigenvectors of its Laplacian, its manifold harmonics. It's the math behind Mark Kac's famous 1966 question, “Can one hear the shape of a drum?”

This takes the harmonics of live audio (an FFT) and drives each mode of the mesh with its matching frequency band. The mesh literally resonates to the music — eigen-solved and rendered in real time, in your browser.

then upload your own mesh · paste a YouTube link · inspect each harmonic

Music → Mesh

The mesh's Laplacian eigenmodes (its natural vibration modes) driven live by the harmonics of the audio.

Mesh
Shapes
People
.obj · .ply · .stl · .glb — or drag & drop anywhere
Audio source
YouTube
Then choose the YouTube source, press Play, and share this tab with “Share tab audio” ticked — the mesh reacts to the real sound.
Controls
Inspect
Isolate one eigenmode to see the pure harmonic.
Ready.
The drum problem ↗ Source ↗
Drop a mesh file to load