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Baryon turns audio into a real-time cymatic field. The visual is not a waveform, bar graph, particle system, or point cloud. It is a continuous volumetric field rendered as a 3D cymatic structure.

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What you are seeing

At a high level:
  1. Baryon analyzes the incoming audio.
  2. The analysis excites a set of modal patterns.
  3. Those modes form a continuous 3D field inside a virtual cavity.
  4. The renderer samples that field through the volume and draws the visible glow, contours, color, and depth.
That means the meaningful state is not a list of screen coordinates. The meaningful state is the current modal field: which modes are active, how strongly they are excited, and how the renderer samples the resulting volume.

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Why settings matter

Most controls are either analysis controls, field controls, render controls, or camera controls.
Setting areaWhat it changes
Audio Input ProfileHow Baryon interprets the source before it becomes a modal field.
BoundaryThe modal family. Neumann behaves like a reflective boundary; Dirichlet behaves like a fixed node.
ReactivityHow strongly audio features drive the field.
Node ThresholdHow sharply the visible structures resolve into rings and contours.
Density / Absorption / OpacityHow thick, deep, and solid the raymarched volume appears.
Color ModeWhether color is manually chosen or promoted from the audio spectrum.
Rotation ModeWhether the cymatic volume is stationary, audio-driven, or manually spun.
Performance ProfileHow much render quality Baryon trades for frame-rate stability.
Camera controlsYour viewpoint only. They do not change the underlying modal field.

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Camera versus rotation

This distinction matters when you are trying to capture a specific expression:
  • Camera orbit changes where you view the field from.
  • Rotation Mode changes whether the rendered cymatic volume itself rotates.
  • Manual Rotation only applies when Rotation Mode is Manual.
  • Motion Scale only applies when Rotation Mode is Audio.
  • Lock Camera prevents accidental orbit dragging. It does not freeze the cymatic field.

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Choosing an input profile

The main choice is between two profiles, and it comes down to one question: does the audio have a single lead pitch, or many sounds at once?
  • Voice tracks one dominant pitch and treats its harmonics as texture. Use it for a singer, a spoken voice, or a lead instrument.
  • Ambient lets many simultaneous sources shape the field. Use it for music, a full mix, or a live room.
For the most faithful result:
  • Use a clean recording or a direct feed when possible.
  • Keep echo cancellation, noise suppression, and auto gain off for line feeds or clean files; turn them on only when a noisy room makes capture difficult.
  • Start with lower Reactivity and increase it until the field breathes with the audio.
  • Save a preset per source so you can return to a look instantly.

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What coordinates would mean

Because Baryon renders a continuous field, an exportable “coordinate” set is not the same thing as a point cloud. A future geometry export would need to choose a moment in time, sample the field, extract a surface or volume, and convert that result into a mesh format that design and slicing tools understand. The current public app does not export raw coordinates, point clouds, STL, OBJ, GLTF, or other 3D-printable geometry. See Creative workflows for the current capture path and the shape of a future export workflow.