Periodic ripple image synthesis

A repeating schedule of raindrop impacts drives a damped wave field. The image appears when the loop reaches the chosen snapshot phase.

Loop period 4.00s

Snapshot phase 0.50

Max impacts 256

Extra damping (1/s) 0.15

Tank size (m) 0.20m

Ease zone 0.18

Hold amount 0.65

Display mode

Show impact markers

3D camera

Autoplay loop

Manual phase 0.00

Target image

Offline solve JSON

Loop phase 0.00

Predicted error 0.000

Active impacts 0

The optimizer solves for ripple events that approximate this grayscale target at the snapshot phase.

Run this app from a simple local static server such as python3 -m http.server in this folder. No npm step is required.