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He found that the dolphin was able to identify the objects with an 86 per cent accuracy rate when they were replayed. Miami-based dolphin researcher Jack Kassewitz used the CymaScope to recorded dolphin sounds reflected off a range of objects, including a plastic cube, a toy duck and a flowerpot.

The CymaScope can effectively translate the sounds a dolphin makes into pictures so each picture representing a dolphin's word for a given object.Īs well as having regular eyes, dolphins also use sound to see and can beam a sound picture of a predator to other dolphins.īy creating a lexicon of dolphin sound pictures researchers hope to hold rudimentary conversations using a computer to convert human words into a dolphin language and the dolphin's reply to human words.

One of the most fascinating of these involves a project which hopes to decypher dolphin language. The firm has also created music videos revealing the effects in real time The CymaScope images from A2 (left) and B2 (right on a piano keyboard. Writing on their website co inventors John Stuart Reid and Erik Larson, explain: 'If our eyes could see music we would not see waves, as is commonly believed, but beautiful holographic bubbles, with shimmering kaleidoscopic patterns on their surface. membrane, later latex was used before the breakthrough of using water was made.

An early prototype featured a thin, circular, P.V.C. 'I saw the use of cymatic technology as one method of such representation and a unique and compelling way of educating individuals about the link between sound, colour, and geometric form'.Ĭapturing the dynamics of each note involved monitoring the initial strike which is followed by a short plateau and then a long decay phase.Īnother project used the Cymascope to visualised the Pink Floyd song Welcome to the Machine.ĭevelopment of the CymaScope began in 2002.

The CymaScope uses a high definition camera to monitor the effect of an individual sound's particular vibrations on purified water.ĭue to the high surface tension of the water, the harmonics of a particular sound create a unique imprint and just like snowflakes no two sounds are alike.