standing water · 6 hours of quasicrystal patterns on a vibrating liquid

six hours of a black liquid held in resonance. the surface cycles through five standing-wave symmetries — sixfold, eightfold, tenfold, twelvefold, fourteenfold — and the light changes colour with each one. the last three are quasicrystals: ordered, but they never repeat. the light is computed, not drawn. where the surface folds, the refracted rays collapse onto a line and a caustic appears — the same thing that draws the bright net on the bottom of a swimming pool. red and blue focus at slightly different depths, so the edges break into colour. kept dim on purpose. nothing flashes, nothing goes white. no samples, no music, no loops of anyone else's work. every frame is solved from the wave field. audio: harmonic series on 66 hz. the eighth harmonic is 528 hz. 00:00 sixfold — cyan 07:12 eightfold — violet 14:24 tenfold — amber 21:36 twelvefold — jade 28:48 fourteenfold — rose