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We Made the Isospectral Drums (prismika.github.io)
2 points by brantmv 106 days ago
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Maybe you've heard of the "can one hear the shape of a drum" question. In the 90's, mathematicians successfully produced two drum shapes that would theoretically produce indistinguishable sets of frequencies when struck. Somehow, no one ever got around to actually making the drums. So we gave it a shot!