Draw Chladni Figures

This function draws Chladni figures on a canvas. Named after Ernst Chladni, an 18th century physicist who first discovered them, Chladni figures are patterns that arise from the vibrations of a two-dimensional plate, typically covered with a thin layer of sand or powder. The Chladni figures are created by varying the frequency of vibration applied to the plate. In this implementation, the grid underneath the plate can be transformed using a domain warping technique. The basic idea behind domain warping is to apply a series of transformations to the input grid to create a more complex and interesting output.

canvas_chladni(
  colors,
  waves = 5,
  warp = 0,
  resolution = 500,
  angles = NULL,
  distances = NULL,
  flatten = FALSE
)

Arguments

colors

a string or character vector specifying the color(s) used for the artwork.

waves

a character specifying the number of randomly sampled waves, or an integer vector of waves to be summed.

warp

a numeric value specifying the maximum warping distance for each point. If warp = 0 (the default), no warping is performed.

resolution

resolution of the artwork in pixels per row/column. Increasing the resolution increases the quality of the artwork but also increases the computation time exponentially.

angles

optional, a resolution x resolution matrix containing the angles for the warp, or a character indicating the type of noise to use (svm, knn, rf, perlin, cubic, simplex, or worley). If NULL (the default), the noise type is chosen randomly.

distances

optional, a resolution x resolution matrix containing the distances for the warp, or a character indicating the type of noise to use (svm, knn, rf, perlin, cubic, simplex, or worley). If NULL (the default), the noise type is chosen randomly.

flatten

logical, should colors be flattened after being assigned to a point.

Value

A ggplot object containing the artwork.

See also

colorPalette

Author

Koen Derks, koen-derks@hotmail.com

Examples

# \donttest{
set.seed(2)

# Simple example
canvas_chladni(colors = colorPalette("origami"))


# Advanced example
canvas_chladni(
  colors = colorPalette("lava"),
  waves = c(1, 2, 3, 9),
  warp = 1
)

# }