WATCH: What is the resonant frequency of googly eyes?

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That was exceedingly disappointing.

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And BoingBoing itself?

Henceforth known as the Barney Effect.

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Iā€™d call it ā€œmildly disappointingā€. It was a bit boring but watchable; could be done better but would pass my ā€œsomewhat interestingā€ threshold.

Iā€™d advise to keep the more extreme adjectives to more extreme disappointments; it sucks when you run out of words when the situation actually deserves them.

Pretty sure thats not resonant frequency.
Itā€™s just googly eyes stuck to a speaker and when thereā€™s enough amplitude, the amount the speaker shakes, the eyes shake too.

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If I had to grade this result, I would give it almost an A.

I did expect something more unexpected (to coin a phrase), like the out-of-sync metronomes turning into a relentless marching army. And secretly feared all the eyes would suddenly, terrifyingly, turn to look right at me.

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resonant frequency is a natural frequency of vibration determined by the physical parameters of the vibrating object.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/reson.html

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ā€œThanksā€.

I was just expecting them to shatter en-masse.

This is quite impressive in a wonky kind of way. There is a lot of junk out there about 433 Hz as a ā€˜natural relaxation frequencyā€™ and a ā€˜harmonic of the universeā€™, and how all music should be re-tuned to use this as A instead of 440 Hzā€¦

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/archive/index.php/t-19.html?s=a22e8b748dd8dee265c4d9bd11fbad20

ā€¦and now they have a sound experimental basis. Huzza. Well done. Maybe.

Hereā€™s a good review paper on human/primate googly eyes (AKA microsaccades):

www.unic.cnrs-gif.fr/site_media/pdf/martinez-conde_et_al_tins09.pdf

The observed frequencies (not resonant frequencies) are in the ~.7 to 1.5 Hz range.

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