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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have turned spider webs into music - creating an eerie soundtrack that could help them better understand how the arachnids spin their complex creations and even how they communicate. The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno to take two-dimensional laser scans of a spider web, which were stitched together and converted into a mathematical model that could recreate the web in 3D in virtual reality. They also worked with MIT's music department to create the harp-like virtual instrument. "Even though the web looks...

A group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has converted the structure of the web into frequencies to play music

According to new research, the fascinating properties of spider webs could now be explored in an entirely new dimension: through music.

Scientists translated the structure of a spider web into music Making music from spider webs. Cross-sectional images (shown in different colors) of a spider web were combined into this 3D image and translated into music. Credit: Isabelle Su and Markus Buehler Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fiber made of protein. The sturdy, stretchy, sticky silks spun by spiders have inspired engineers to develop several tins. Not only does spider silk combine the valuable properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, but it can also be beautiful in its own right. Recently, scientists ...