Frequencies of colours and shapes.

[Silentthinker]

According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met:[63]

Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder
Grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms: Blunted affect (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation)

too busy with something on the inside to worry about the otherside, engaged in nonrational thinking...
by nonrational thinking i am referring to the gnostic beliefs...looking outside etc, that nonrational world.
possession or parasitism too perhaps? it's a complex of disorders, not just one, so the causes would be multiple and related not one simple cause.
also refer to the idea that all humans have the potential to be psychic too, and are at a deeply buried level, the intuition they have even if they ignore. They just cannot remember it consiously, it's blocked, disassociated.

[Silentthinker]

If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication.

hearing voices, telepathy, or an entity or something inhabiting within?
Paranoid type: Delusions or auditory hallucinations are present, but thought disorder, disorganized behavior, or affective flattening are not. Delusions are persecutory and/or grandiose, but in addition to these, other themes such as jealousy, religiosity, or somatization may also be present. (DSM code 295.3/ICD code F20.0)

a negative entity?

The prominent characteristics of this form are disorganized behavior and speech, (see formal thought disorder) including schizophasia, and flat or inappropriate emotion and affect. In addition, psychiatrists must rule out any possible sign of catatonic schizophrenia. The condition is also known as hebephrenia, named after the Greek goddess of youth, Hebe, in reference to the typical age of onset in puberty.[3]

Unlike paranoid schizophrenia, delusions and hallucinations are not the most prominent feature,[4][5] although fragmentary delusions and hallucinations may be present.

A person with disorganized schizophrenia may also experience behavioral disorganization which may impair his or her ability to carry out daily activities, such as showering or eating.[6]

The emotional responses of such people often seem strange or inappropriate. Inappropriate facial responses may be common, and behavior is sometimes described as 'silly', such as inappropriate laughter. Sometimes there is a complete lack of emotion, including anhedonia (the lack of pleasure), and avolition (a lack of motivation). Some of these features are also present in other types of schizophrenia, but they are most prominent in disorganized schizophrenia.
seeing or experiencing things at another level? a broken connection to source? something else?

Catatonic type: The subject may be almost immobile or exhibit agitated, purposeless movement. Symptoms can include catatonic stupor and waxy flexibility. (DSM code 295.2/ICD code F20.2)
the spirit is gone?


Undifferentiated type: Psychotic symptoms are present but the criteria for paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic types have not been met. (DSM code 295.9/ICD code F20.3)
Residual type: Where positive symptoms are present at a low intensity only. (DSM code 295.6/ICD code F20.5)
not sure with these two.

Simple schizophrenia: Insidious and progressive development of prominent negative symptoms with no history of psychotic episodes. (ICD code F20.6)
possession again? something slowly taking over?

The primary treatment of schizophrenia is antipsychotic medications, often in combination with psychological and social supports.[2] Hospitalization may occur for severe episodes either voluntarily or (if mental health legislation allows it) involuntarily. Long-term hospitalization is uncommon since deinstitutionalization beginning in the 1950s, although still occurs.[4] Community support services including drop-in centers, visits by members of a community mental health team, supported employment[74] and support groups are common. Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.[75]
bold: i refer back to the beginning of my posts, about theta waves and the frequencies of such, look at the frequencies between 6 and 10 hz, and what they do to theta waves, and what they correspond to.

4-6 attitude and behavior change MH
4-7 Theta recall, fantasy, imagery, creativity, planning, dreaming, switching thoughts, Zen meditation, drowsiness.
4 Enkephalins; Extrasensory perception MG
4.9 Theta brain wave
5.0 unusal problem solving x
5.5 Moves beyond knowledge to knowing, shows vision of growth needed
6.0 long term memory stimulation MG
7.0 Mental and astral projection, psychic surgery
7.5 Inter-awareness of self and purpose, guided meditation, creativity, contact with spirit guides; entry into meditation MG
7.83 Earth Resonance, grounding, "Schumann Resonance." x
8-10 learning new information MH
8-13 Alpha relaxed, tranquil and non-drowsy, inward awareness, bodymind
8-14 Qi Gong and infratonic Qi Gong machine QG
8.0 Past life regression x
8.3 Pick up visual images of mental objects
9.0 Awareness of causes of body imbalance and means for balance x
9.41 Pyramid frequency (outside)
9.6 Mean dominant frequency associated with the earth's magnetic field EQ
10 enhanced release of serotonin and mood elevator, universally beneficial, use to try effects of other mixes

Acts as an analgesic, safest frequency, especially for hangover and jet lag.

Meg Patterson used for nicotine withdrawal.

Thus, "theta" can mean either of two things:

A specific type of regular oscillation seen in the hippocampus and several other brain regions connected to it.
EEG oscillations in the 4–7 Hz frequency range, regardless of where in the brain they occur or what their functional significance is.
In contrast to the situation in rats, where long periods of theta oscillations are easily observed using electrodes implanted at many sites, theta has been difficult to pin down in primates, even when intracortical electrodes have been available. Green and Arduini (1954), in their pioneering study of theta rhythms, reported only brief bursts of irregular theta in monkeys. Other investigators have reported similar results, although Stewart and Fox (1991) described a clear 7–9 Hz theta rhythm in the hippocampus of urethane-anesthetized macaques and squirrel monkeys, resembling the type 2 theta observed in urethane-anesthetized rats.

Most of the available information on human hippocampal theta comes from a few small studies of epileptic patients with intracranially implanted electrodes used as part of a treatment plan. In the largest and most systematic of these studies, Cantero et al. (2003) found that oscillations in the 4–7 Hz frequency range could be recorded from both the hippocampus and neocortex. The hippocampal oscillations were associated with REM sleep and the transition from sleep to waking, and came in brief bursts, usually less than a second long. Cortical theta oscillations were observed during the transition from sleep and during quiet wakefulness; however, the authors were unable to find any correlation between hippocampal and cortical theta waves, and concluded that the two processes are probably controlled by independent mechanisms.


Theta-frequency EEG activity is also manifested during some short term memory tasks (Vertes, 2005). Studies suggest that they reflect the "on-line" state of the hippocampus; one of readiness to process incoming signals (Buzsáki, 2002). Conversely, theta oscillations have been correlated to various voluntary behaviors (exploration, spatial navigation, etc.) and alert states (piloerection, etc.) in rats (Vanderwolf, 1969), suggesting that it may reflect the integration of sensory information with motor output (for review, see Bland & Oddie, 2001). A large body of evidence indicates that theta rhythm is likely involved in spatial learning and navigation (Buzsáki, 2005).

Theta rhythms are very strong in rodent hippocampi and entorhinal cortex during learning and memory retrieval, and are believed to be vital to the induction of long-term potentiation, a potential cellular mechanism of learning and memory. Based on evidence from electrophysiological studies showing that both synaptic plasticity and strength of inputs to hippocampal region CA1 vary systematically with ongoing theta oscillations (Hyman et al., 2003; Brankack et al., 1993), it has been suggested that the theta rhythm functions to separate periods of encoding of current sensory stimuli and retrieval of episodic memory cued by current stimuli so as to avoid interference that would occur if encoding and retrieval were simultaneous.

Due to the density of its neural layers, the hippocampus generates some of the largest EEG signals of any brain structure. In some situations the EEG is dominated by regular waves at 4–10 Hz, often continuing for many seconds. This EEG pattern is known as the hippocampal theta rhythm. It has also been called Rhythmic Slow Activity (RSA), to contrast it with the Large Irregular Activity (LIA) that usually dominates the hippocampal EEG when theta is not present.

In rats, hippocampal theta is seen mainly in two conditions: first, when an animal is running, walking, or in some other way actively interacting with its surroundings; second, during REM sleep (Vanderwolf, 1969). The frequency of the theta waves increases as a function of running speed, starting at about 6.5 Hz on the low end, and increasing to about 9 Hz at the fastest running speeds, although higher frequencies are sometimes seen for brief high-velocity movements such as jumps across wide gaps. In larger species of animals, theta frequencies are generally lower. The behavioral dependency also seems to vary by species: in cats and rabbits, theta is often observed during states of motionless alertness. This has been reported for rats as well, but only when they are fearful (Sainsbury et al., 1987).

Theta is not just confined to the hippocampus. In rats, it can be observed in many parts of the brain, including nearly all that interact strongly with the hippocampus. The generation of the rhythm is dependent on the medial septal area: this area projects to all of the regions that show theta rhythmicity, and destruction of it eliminates theta throughout the brain (Stewart & Fox, 1990).


Type 1 and type 2

In 1975 Kramis, Bland, and Vanderwolf proposed that in rats there are two distinct types of hippocampal theta rhythm, with different behavioral and pharmacological properties (Kramis et al., 1975). Type 1 ("atropine resistant") theta, according to them, appears during locomotion and other types of "voluntary" behavior and during REM sleep, has a frequency usually around 8 Hz, and is unaffected by the anticholinergic drug atropine. Type 2 ("atropine sensitive") theta appears during immobility and during anesthesia induced by urethane, has a frequency in the 6–7 Hz range, and is eliminated by administration of atropine. Many later investigations have supported the general concept that hippocampal theta can be divided into two types, although there has been dispute about the precise properties of each type. Type 2 theta is comparatively rare in unanesthetized rats: it may be seen briefly when an animal is preparing to make a movement but hasn't yet executed it, but has only been reported for extended periods in animals that are in a state of frozen immobility because of the nearby presence of a predator such as a cat or ferret (Sainsbury et al., 1987).
Relationship with behavior

Vanderwolf (1969) made a strong argument that the presence of theta in the hippocampal EEG can be predicted on the basis of what an animal is doing, rather than why the animal is doing it. Active movements such as running, jumping, bar-pressing, or exploratory sniffing are reliably associated with theta; inactive states such as eating or grooming are associated with LIA. Later studies showed that theta frequently begins several hundred milliseconds before the onset of movement, and that it is associated with the intention to move rather than with feedback produced by movement (Whishaw & Vanderwolf, 1973). The faster an animal runs, the higher the theta frequency. In rats, the slowest movements give rise to frequencies around 6.5 Hz, the fastest to frequencies around 9 Hz, although faster oscillations can be observed briefly during very vigorous movements such as large jumps.

There is also a distinction between sleep states: REM (dreaming) sleep is associated with theta; slow-wave sleep is associated with LIA.[citation needed]
Mechanisms
spirit in body vs outside wandering?

Numerous studies have shown that the medial septal area plays a central role in generating hippocampal theta (Stewart & Fox, 1990). Lesioning the medial septal area, or inactivating it with drugs, eliminates both type 1 and type 2 theta. Under certain conditions, theta-like oscillations can be induced in hippocampal or entorhinal cells in the absence of septal input, but this does not occur in intact, undrugged adult rats. The critical septal region includes the medial septal nucleus and the vertical limb of the diagonal band of Broca. The lateral septal nucleus, a major recipient of hippocampal output, probably does not play an essential role in generating theta.
removal is like removing connection to source?

The medial septal area projects to a large number of brain regions that show theta modulation, including all parts of the hippocampus as well as the entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex, retrosplenial cortex, medial mamillary and supramamillary nuclei of the hypothalamus, anterior nuclei of the thalamus, amygdala, inferior colliculus, and several brainstem nuclei (Buzsáki, 2002). Some of the projections from the medial septal area are cholinergic; the rest are GABAergic. It is commonly argued that cholinergic receptors do not respond rapidly enough to be involved in generating theta waves, and therefore that GABAergic signals must play the central role.

A major research problem has been to discover the "pacemaker" for the theta rhythm, that is, the mechanism that determines the oscillation frequency. The answer is not yet entirely clear, but there is some evidence that type 1 and type 2 theta depend on different pacemakers. For type 2 theta, the supramamillary nucleus of the hypothalamus appears to exert control (Kirk, 1998). For type 1 theta, the picture is still unclear, but the most widely accepted hypothesis proposes that the frequency is determined by a feedback loop involving the medial septal area and hippocampus (Wang, 2002).
what if it's a deeper rhythm instead? a vibration that connects everyone?

Several types of hippocampal and entorhinal neurons are capable of generating theta-frequency membrane potential oscillations when stimulated. Typically these are sodium-dependent voltage-sensitive oscillations in membrane potential at near-action potential voltages (Alonso & Llinás, 1989). Specifically, it appears that in neurons of the CA1 and dentate gyrus, these oscillations result from an interplay of dendritic excitation via a persistent sodium current (INaP) with perisomatic inhibition (Buzsáki, 2002).

also lastly 2 more frequncies just below the bottom of the theta bandwidth:

3.4 Sound sleep
3.5 Feeling of unity with everything, accelerated language retention×; enhancement of receptivity

that's all for now, sorry to repost about theta waves but it's important, i tried to underline/bold/italic important bits, i hope that people can see something in the connections i have made.
it's all in the frequencies though. all the data i posted is from the relevant articles about the topics, i'm sorry not directly link, but i pasted it a bit differently, just the parts that captured my notice.

[AwakeInADream]

This is a great thread!

I've been thinking along similar lines myself, but I have been primarily concerned with music and creating non standard scales based around 432Hz.

Here is a post I made on another thread that is definitely relevant here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...litator/page12

Have you ever wondered what 'The Sunflowers' by Vincent Van Gogh sounds like?



To find out you will need to use this:


Because 0Hz isn't a frequency you need to add 360 to all of the degree values so 0 becomes 360 and 360 becomes 720. Then you can view all of the degree's on the colour wheel as frequencies. The colour to note values I got differ from the ones usually used by others, because I started from scratch and did all the maths myself. Getting a correct colour value for a musical frequency is quite tricky, but even if the colours are slightly off, it is the relationships between them that count, and on this you can be accurate.

Using a paint package and colour picker I found the notes of this Van Gogh painting were: C,E,B and D#. Thats like a Cmaj7 chord without the G, but with an added D#.
http://soundcloud.com/awakeinadream-1/sunflowers#play

You can do this to find out what any painting sounds like. You can even reverse this process and find out what a piece of music looks like.

Imagine painting a Motzart! Or playing a Picasso!

Note that using a more detailed and precise colour wheel, you could achieve a very
accurate frequency for each colour. Also experimenting with different equal temperament scale such as 22 notes to the octave or more, you can create music that more accurately reflects the art.

I hope to contribute more to this thread as the subject fascinates me.

EDIT:
I'm forgetting how I originally used the colour wheel so I'll have to think out loud here..
To work out a 12 note Equal Temperament scale you times the start note by this number 1.059460923593 to get the next note, and carry on until you reach the octave.

In the case of the colour wheel this number is 360: so these are the 12 note values in degrees...
360.0000 = 1st note
381.4067
404.0863
428.1146
453.5716
480.5423
509.1169
539.3905
571.4644
605.4454
641.4471
679.5895
720.0000 = the octave

minus 360 these values become usable on the wheel:
0.0000 = 1st note
21.4067
44.0863
68.1146
93.5716
120.5423
149.1169
179.3905
211.4644
245.4454
281.4471
319.5895
360.0000 = the octave

These are the traditional values of the colours in Thz:
Colour Thtz
RED 405-480
ORANGE 480-510
YELLOW 510-530
GREEN 530-580
TURQUOISE 580-600
BLUE 600-670
INDIGO 670-700
VIOLET 700-790
VIOLET/RED 790-810

Now to get a frequency like 528Hz into the Theta Hertz range, the hard way would be to double it
loads of times. So instead you can times it by 1.0995116278 to get the value in Thz.(only if the frequency is between 440Hz and 880Hz which you can get by taking the octave up or down)

528Hz x 1.099...= 580.56Thz between Green and Turquoise.

After testing the values for all 12 notes I noticed they wouldn't fit comfortably into the colour wheel, so I concluded that the traditional Thz values (which are pretty vague anyway) must be wrong.

A colour wheel can be proven accurate because mixing of any two opposite/complimentary colours in paint will always give you a neutral grey/black. Therefore the traditional Thz values must be slightly off. So I had to use my best guess to place the notes on the wheel, and that's why it differs from the generally accepted values of note to colour.

So in order to find a specific Hertz frequency value (between 440-880) on this wheel use this formula:
(Frequency between 440 and 880 x 0.818181818181818)-360

528Hz x 0.8181...= 432. 432-360=72. So 528Hz is placed at 72 degrees. So it's really a yellow/orange.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>I Was Completely Wrong<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<<<<<<<<Please Disregard Most of what is Above>>>>>>>>

This is a much more accurate colour to musical note chart,
based on the correct use of mathematics. Silly me I thought that Thz meant Thetahertz, but it really means Terahertz.



All is now well!

[AwakeInADream]

Thank's Silentthinker! Very precise frequencies you got there.

I wander if the musical notes of their octaves would have a similar effect?

This would work if the natural harmonics of a particular note flowed downward in frequency, as well as up....There is healing potential there...

EDIT: In fact all of those Theta waves could possibly be activated all at once using specially modulated binaural beats that sweep through the whole range, maybe even hitting those magic spots that haven't yet been discovered, with undreamed of results in consciousness raising and awakening....

[AwakeInADream]

Thinking about all the specific frequency information on this thread about the links between Colours/Chakras/Body Parts/Planets and things makes me wonder how on earth to practically test such things.

I once made a planetary musical scale using the ratio's between the diameters of the planets in the solar system. Those notes are buried somewhere, I will have to find them.

It seems to me that only the ratios holds true, whilst specific frequencies remain difficult to prove.

An idea to find the Chakras true note values(given modulation/key changes) would be to go by the physical distance between them by ratio. A possible way to test this would be to play a certain sine wave and then close your eyes and feel where about in your body you feel it, and go by trial and error. A psychic/sensitive person would be better to do the testing on this.

I just wish that the websites that give this sort of information would show their reasoning and workings out of how they got their values.

On the main topic of shapes possible frequencies, then maybe these could be worked out using the ratios of the shapes areas or volumes(if 3D). Naturally then a bigger triangle for instance would have a larger frequency, so you couldn't say that all triangles make the same sound/colour. A problem like this requires original thinking, but I do feel that ratio is very important.

Or if you want archetypal shape frequencies of a uniform size, try triangle=3 sides and square = 4 sides. An octave of 3 is 768Hz, and 4 is 512Hz. A 5 sided figure would give 640Hz. This works the same with the shapes constituent parts, i.e 3 dots make a triangle and 4 dots make a square. The circle is problematic because 1 side gives the same octave as 4 which is 512Hz, which means in frequency terms the circle has been squared.

An interesting thing to note about the 3,4 and 5 sided figure frequencies is that 3,4 and 5 is a Pythagorean triple. And the frequencies obtained from them 768,512 and 640 create a perfect major chord with 512 as the route note.

This is the method for obtaining a Major chord:

512 x 3 = (1536)/2=768.

512 x 5 = ((2560)/2)=640.

So in visual terms a square, a triangle and a pentagon creates a Major chord.

[meeradas]

Posted by AwakeInADream (here)
So in visual terms a square, a triangle and a pentagon creates a Major chord.

Keep going!

Do you know this book?
[Read the first couple of reviews here to get a glimpse of what's in it]

... and, maybe there's sth interesting here for ya?

[Conchis]

waaaaayyyyy back in this post was an interesting question related to the role that sound/vibration might play in forming things. I think this is a really interesting idea. I'm a glassblower and as a material it is second to none in strangeness. They are still arguing over the nature of glass. There does seem to be a very interesting thing that happens in glass that is related to vibration/movement at a molecular level with glass that they are just discovering (and it may be related to other things as well of course). Glass never really turns into a solid even as it approaches absolute zero, but they were experimenting with this and they found that at temperatures approaching absolute zero (where theoretically there would be increasingly less molecular movement) shifts at the quantum level melts the glass.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...glass-melting/

It makes you wonder if there isn't yet another "harmonic" that goes from light/sound/molecular/quantum

[AwakeInADream]

Posted by meeradas (here)

Posted by AwakeInADream (here)
So in visual terms a square, a triangle and a pentagon creates a Major chord.

Keep going!

Do you know this book?
[Read the first couple of reviews here to get a glimpse of what's in it]

... and, maybe there's sth interesting here for ya?

Thank's Meeradas! There are some pretty familiar numbers in 'The 81 Lo Shu Tones'.

Solfeggio tones I have tested before, not very musical but some of them might be useful (I won't throw the baby out with the bath water just yet).

[AwakeInADream]

Found this link to a free book about harmonic resonance in the brain:
http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/HRezBook/HRezBook.html
Looks interesting...

[AwakeInADream]

Posted by Conchis (here)
waaaaayyyyy back in this post was an interesting question related to the role that sound/vibration might play in forming things. I think this is a really interesting idea. I'm a glassblower and as a material it is second to none in strangeness. They are still arguing over the nature of glass. There does seem to be a very interesting thing that happens in glass that is related to vibration/movement at a molecular level with glass that they are just discovering (and it may be related to other things as well of course). Glass never really turns into a solid even as it approaches absolute zero, but they were experimenting with this and they found that at temperatures approaching absolute zero (where theoretically there would be increasingly less molecular movement) shifts at the quantum level melts the glass.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...glass-melting/

It makes you wonder if there isn't yet another "harmonic" that goes from light/sound/molecular/quantum

I think you might be right! The Rife machine affected things on the molecular level using high frequencies of sound.

Given your knowledge of glass, can you answer this question for me.

How is it that a musical note can cause glass to shatter?

[Violet]

Shapes have frequency? Amazing.

[greybeard]

Posted by AwakeInADream (here)

Posted by Conchis (here)
waaaaayyyyy back in this post was an interesting question related to the role that sound/vibration might play in forming things. I think this is a really interesting idea. I'm a glassblower and as a material it is second to none in strangeness. They are still arguing over the nature of glass. There does seem to be a very interesting thing that happens in glass that is related to vibration/movement at a molecular level with glass that they are just discovering (and it may be related to other things as well of course). Glass never really turns into a solid even as it approaches absolute zero, but they were experimenting with this and they found that at temperatures approaching absolute zero (where theoretically there would be increasingly less molecular movement) shifts at the quantum level melts the glass.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...glass-melting/

It makes you wonder if there isn't yet another "harmonic" that goes from light/sound/molecular/quantum

I think you might be right! The Rife machine affected things on the molecular level using high frequencies of sound.

Given your knowledge of glass, can you answer this question for me.

How is it that a musical note can cause glass to shatter?

Quite a bit on the subject in this video.
Chris

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dVUU3p5iHMA

[Caren]

Years ago during my baby sister's wedding - her sister in-law sang 'Ave Maria' beautifully but part way through the song her voice shattered a glass candle holder - it just exploded and loudly!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0_HY...eature=related

[AwakeInADream]

Great video GreyBeard! Cheers!

Has anyone here ever tried out Cymatics for themselves?
I'd quite like to give it a go, maybe using a roasting pan, and some salt or flour or something.
It would be cool to do it with powdered paint, and then to fix the pattern to the canvas with water.
I didn't know before that different materials act differently under sound, and thus create different patterns.

[Poly Hedra]

This is a blog talking about how sacred geometry and the sounds created by the geometric shapes are used in sound healing.
http://http://landsofwisdom.com/?p=67

[AwakeInADream]

Posted by conec (here)
This is a blog talking about how sacred geometry and the sounds created by the geometric shapes are used in sound healing.
http://http://landsofwisdom.com/?p=67

Hey Conec!

That blog link isn't working for me. Can you re-post it?

EDIT: http://landsofwisdom.com/?p=67
The link's look identical, but this one works in my browser and the other doesn't. Odd.

[Poly Hedra]

Just bought this book, can't wait to get my grubby little hands on it. Glee is the word that comes to mind

Jon Allen: Making Geometry: Exploring Three Dimensional Forms

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Geome...Allen+geometry

"Following on from his successful Drawing Geometry, Jon Allen explores the creation of the many-sided three-dimensional forms known as the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Based on patterns of equally spaced points on a sphere, these polyhedra have been the fundamentals of geometric exploration for millennia. Many professionals find they need to be able to build three-dimensional shapes accurately, and understand the principles behind them. This unique book shows them how to make models of all the Platonic and Archimedean solids, as well as several other polyhedra and stellated forms. It provides step-by-step instructions for constructing the three-dimensional forms, as well as showing how to draw out accurately the geometry of the paperfold nets. Beginners and experienced artists and designers alike will find this book a source of practical guidance, as well as delight and inspiration which will amply repay the careful attention needed to construct the models."

[Poly Hedra]

This just blows my mind, it kind of defines my whole idea for this thread and where I was going with it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KU84ckD1AcA

Also, AwakeInADream, maybe this is what your looking for in regards to making your own tonoscope? Possibly.

Also Here is a free android app called: Penelope free audio processor
It's a tonoscope app. It's the only one on google play.

I've been reading through this whole thread again realising how much there is to learn and research. Fantastic info from everyone. Tangents upon tangents.