Cymatic Dust preview
Cymatic Dust Pro · Coming soon for Aperveil 1.0 WebGPU shader

The shape of a quiet frequency.

Guide persistent sand grains into Chladni-inspired patterns with your cursor. Tune settling, movement and colors in WebGPU, without microphone access.

Meet the surface

Part of Aperveil Pro · Coming soon. The live demo, editor and downloads will open in a later release. Free shaders and blocks are available now.

A surface, not a screenshot.
Pro · Coming soon for Aperveil 1.0Persistent grainsvgpu runtime

THE SYSTEM BEHIND THE SURFACE

Inside Cymatic Dust.

Cymatic Dust keeps 32,768 grains in GPU memory. Moving up, down, left or right blends between different nodal modes; the same grains disperse and settle into the new pattern. Spatially varying agitation and a gentle artistic settling force create the motion. Color Looks recolor the grains without restarting their state.

No audio or microphone input is used. This is a Chladni-inspired particle model, not a calibrated plate solver or a simulation of individual 3D grain collisions. Nodal mode is not a frequency in hertz. The display WGSL needs the persistent compute and rendering pipeline; standalone exports are not available yet.

No published timing sample. Profile this effect on your target devices.

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Nodal mode

Complexity of the vibration pattern; higher modes give more, smaller cells.

02

Pattern scale

Size of the pattern on the surface.

03

Nodal concentration

How tightly the grains gather on the pattern's lines; low values leave wide, loose bands.

04

Grain size

Size of each grain.

Color Looks preserve these settings. Open the editor for all 16 controls.

APERVEIL PRO

Coming soon.

This Pro surface's demo, editor and downloads will open in a later release. Free shaders and blocks are available now.

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THE SURFACE IN CONTEXT

Made for a real interface.

Build an atmospheric opening for a listening room, experimental music journal or generative art project. The quiet particles leave room for a clear headline; the moving contours suggest resonance without requiring an audio permission prompt.

Cymatic Dust used behind an example interface
STILL FREQUENCY / LISTENING JOURNALExample composition

A space for deliberate listening

Listen with your eyes.

Sound, silence and the patterns between them. Notes from the edges of experimental music.

Editorial

Long-form listening. Short moments of clarity.

Tempo

Unhurried, by intention.

Illustrative layout, not a customer project. The image is a still preview of the selected Look.

An illustrative layout. Your content stays in HTML; the shader sets the atmosphere.

A FEW USEFUL DETAILS

Before you ship.

What this surface does, where it fits, and where it stops.

ANOTHER WAY TO SEE IT

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YOUR COLORS. YOUR CONTEXT.

Make Cymatic Dust yours.