Music of the Shores?

To all list members,

Dear friends,

I have been studying the ripple patterns on seashores, both static, recorded in the inter-tidal sands and dynamic, observed as drainage water flows across the sands as the tide goes out.

These remarkable static and dynamic patterns suggest 'sounds' but engraved in sand within a non-audible visual domain. So is it possible to 'sonify' the visual data and create sounds directly related to the patterns?

The dynamic patterns are most interesting, produced by water flow over shifting sand, pushed along by the water. It seems to be a beautiful unstable 'ringing' system producing transient standing waves that rise and fall with the rhythm of the water flow and the shifting sand bed over which the water flows.

I have a short video of this phenomenon downloadable here:

https://download.yousendit.com/R3ozNnFNTkwzeUtGa1E9PQ

Would it be possible to model or synthesise the 'tones' by dynamically analysing the visual data in the video?

Your comments would be most welcome,

Sincerely,

Dallas Simpson aka waterpump