Seeing Sound Pt. 2 – How To See Actual Sound Waves In The Air
Using some DIY schlieren imaging and maths, one can accomplish just about anything.
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Tracklist:
9 Minutes in – Prism
https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/album/piety-of-ashes
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TIMESPAMTZ:
0:00 – Intro
1:23 – How schlieren imaging works
4:13 – Trying to see soundwaves
7:28 – Actually seeing soundwaves
9:20 – Pushing gas and heat with soundwaves
12:43 – Summary
#cymatics #Schlieren #audiovisualizer #physics
@asefo497
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
none of the examples you gave for diffraction were actual diffraction💀
@chishioengi
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Benn, your curiosity and drive to do crazy things just to see what happens is the very spirit of science and discovery and it constantly makes me feel more hope for humanity that our species has created people like you.
@aquahoodjd
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
They make surgical masks which kill virus and bacteria going in and out…they are for surgeons who may have a cold for example. They are coated on the interior layer with a type of acid acidic I think?
@RoyalAnalogMonarch
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
This need to be re-done with laminar flow so I bet you could see the actual sound way more clearly and descriptively.
@joehopfield
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
How did nobody mention "sensitive flame" here? Excellent.
@benediktjensmagnusson2388
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
hello, what do you use to develop these frequencies used on minute 6:00 ish?
@jordanolson
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
I wonder what the "pushing gas and heat with soundwaves" part would look like if you played the music like 4 times faster (with a 4x framerate to accompany) and then slowed it back to normal music speed in post
@denysedavid2522
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Love your videos
@imboss3879
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
I need to be able to verify infrasound with a picture or video. Can you do that?
@MichaelYoung-i2c
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Could this technology theoretically be used to optimize the listening position in a room? I.e., rather than a lot of fiddling with your old fashioned measurement microphone and calculating room modes, take detailed enough images of the sound in the room across the range of audible frequencies and 'see' whether the space around the listener's head is full of large, interfering waves. Ok, definitely not easier than the old approach to build oneself, but theoretically possible, right?
@ElRayDelRio
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Sounds can be seen under a process known as cymatics which are vibrational phenomenas made visible thru waves. Dark matter energy is also seen thru spectral lines and color palette pixelated images like infrareds. Key impressions are fractal, colors, pressures, temperature, and movements. Certain case studies like to suggest that synesthesia (visual stimuli phenomenon) may be a symptom of neurological disorders related to the spatio temporal lobe deafferenation visual pathogens. The temporal lobe harbors our auditory cortex which carry all types of sensory messages thru segregated pathways analyzing information. Neuroanatomy becomes really fascinating when we think about the number of alternated compressions in a period of time, registering as frequencies of sound amplified into acoustic energy waves then converted electronically thru receptors. The audible resonances in the eardrum, with pressure waves transferring vibrations into cross sectional membrane regions 🤯
@andrewdewar8159
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Use a stroboscope maybe
@kowloonbroadcast
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
A great track to accompany the visual part of the video, enjoyed it much
@lindaandersen6897
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Benn, I’m wondering if you’ve captured and “visualized” the sounds of plants?
@LazloH
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
"..and this is a regular left hand" had me cracking up. Good Content! 10/10
@kathychapman3542
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
That was very cool thank you
@increaseoverture_
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Nice!
@gidi1899
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Very Cool,
How About using 2 cameras – one more from a side view?
Also, would be nice to see the sound wave's peeks, like spaced 1.5 m for 220 hz.
Also, would be nice to see the different pitches of instruments show different wave patterns
@aaronsorensen5165
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
This really isn’t a wavelength from a sound.
It’s what the beat and mainly the bass is doing to distort or push the air. Sound frequencies themselves travel through the air almost exactly like the machines that pick them up and show the wave / length.
Sound waves don’t distort the air at all.
@steelemedina
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Damn son 🔥🔥🔥
@Appleloucious
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Dear Benn, many many thanks for sharing your findings! Was really pleasant to view : D
One Love!
Always forward, never ever backward!!
<3
@Appleloucious
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
SCH as SH in SHY
L as L in LAY
IE as EE in EERIE
R as R in ROBERT
EN as EN in ENGINEER
<3
@AngryClippy1
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
I swear that song was from Metroid prime 1. Great video
@h7opolo
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
watch a harvard professor explain it on YouTube.
@h7opolo
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
to see the soundwave with schleiren, you need to pulse the light source at the same frequency as the sound wave.
@waltmodul7948
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
It’s called . Die Schlierenfotografie ist eine Fototechnik, die 1864 vom deutschen Chemiker und Physiker August Toepler entwickelt wurde.
@waltmodul7948
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Of a second
@waltmodul7948
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Light vs sound . For easy 333m/s sound 300.000.000 m/s light. Max distance behind glasses bending the light 5cm. That’s 300.000.000 : 20= 6.000.000.000. Also 1/6.000.000.000
@magickinfused5230
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Cymatic frequencies. Sarced geometry. Dmt the pineal gland. Then go see sound for yourself. I know you won't though seeing one rainbow hexagon concave mirror in an infinity of dimensions all around you is enough to blow anyones mind.
@magickinfused5230
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Mask ad 10 minutes talking 2 minutes bad visuals. Guys go look up cymatic study sarced geometry and don't accept this world order of communism see you in the 5d
@mid-westbigfootresearchers8665
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
nice work! Helped me understand infrasound's effects on light waves.
@chrisw1462
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Sorry, but none of your examples are diffraction. The flashlight trick is the center of the bulb being reflected and focused around your finger(s) by the flashlight's reflector. The sun picture is just multiple rays caused by the cloud edges letting light through. The bedroom door is multiple reflections in the room leaking out the door at different angles – there's no way that crack could be small enough to cause diffraction visible from that distance. If you got close up to one of the ray's edges, you might see diffraction.
@Lynn-hp1bx
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
this video needs more views! i'll show it at uni
@jon_gee
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Damn. I love it. Thank you!!!!
@beggbasso287
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
This is just amazing! You should do a whole A/V live show based on this… it would be FIRE!!! lol
@knockoutcustoms7477
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Man if someone had thought to do this in the 90's…….screensavers would look totally different today🤔
@knockoutcustoms7477
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Your only further solidifying my theory about sound waves and "space travel"🤔
@kalesyps764
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
Imagine one mirror for every track in the mix
@sameccleston8673
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 am
those telescope images look like they could be an analord-esque album/ep cover
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