Steve Mold re-created The Rings of Power title sequence using patterns produced by vibrating square plates.
The first time I saw the opening credits for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, I thought the patterns looked remarkably like the so-called “Chladni figures”: vibrational patterns that form when one scatters sand on a vibrating plate. It seems I was not the only one. British science communicator and YouTube star Steve Mold got so many comments from viewers about the similarities that he decided to test that hypothesis—by re-creating the title sequence with his own vibration-generated patterns. He