Interference Field

Touch or click the screen! The interference field renders 6 moving wave sources on a 90x90 pixel grid. Each source emits sine waves that spread out, overlap, and cancel each other out - creating standing wave patterns, moiré effects, and harmonic knots.

The sources automatically change, continuously changing the interference pattern. The color of each pixel encodes the phase and amplitude of the added waves. No two seconds are the same.

Drag or click to control the main source and draw the field in real time.

Technical: 6 harmonic oscillators, inverse distance amplitude decay, HSL phase mapping.

Pay attention to the math reading.