Here is a rough representation I did.
For our midterms this week, we had to present a rough idea of what our final project would be. Some people presented medical projects while others chose products for more domestic uses. However our project was completely abstract. I think that we felt that it was really important to combine beauty and science and show a direct correlation between them. The way that we did this was to show a visual representation of sound that could be finessed and manipulated. Sound would be seen as a bunch of floating “nano” particles that, when in motion, would emit sound. The type of sound emitted would be determined by the speed of the particle at which it is moving, and the speed of the particle would be determined by one’s own hand. Many other factors would come into play; force, direction, collision, and even shape of the field of particles. But the most important factor of our project was that it had to be beautiful. When one saw the particles, he would not only be seeing sound itself, but a piece of art.
Blue sound, inspired by quantum dots.
We found something in science that may be able convey our outlandish idea: quantum dots. These beautiful dots have been used for tagging and identifying different cells through color. The essence of these dots is that the lower the energy in the dot, the redder it will be. The higher the energy in the dot, the bluer it will be.
Using these properties of quantum dots, we hope to be able have the dots not only emit fluorescent color, but sound as well.
Links
http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/brands/Molecular-Probes/Key-Molecular-Probes-Products/Qdot.html
http://www.evidenttech.com/quantum-dots-explained/how-quantum-dots-work.html