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The sand gathered at the nodal lines, revealing the vibration pattern. By the time he published his famous book in 1809, Chladni had used this method to study vibration of plates of many shapes, and these results were important in validating the theoretical models for plate vibration which were developed during the nineteenth century. Chladni figures are still a useful experimental technique today, but it is now easier to create them using sinusoidal excitation so that the frequency can be controlled directly.