Blooming Resonant Tea: A Multisensory Dining Experience with Dynamic Visuals and Music
– ACM SIGGRAPH 2025, Emerging Technologies
Abstract This study introduces the Blooming Resonant Tea system, a drink- ing system that integrates taste, visual, and auditory stimuli to enhance the flavor of herbal tea and ingredient immersion. Studies show that cymatics (the use of vibrational frequencies to create dynamic liquid patterns) and music can amplify existing flavors, while dynamic projections can enhance food perception. To aug- ment flavor, the system employs two methods: generating cymatics patterns through a VP2 vibrator embedded in the cup and using flavor-associated music. For ingredient immersion, blooming projections are used to visually transform the tea from a bud to full bloom. This system offers a customizable multi-sensory drinking experience, allowing users to select different herbal teas with matching projections, cymatics patterns, and music, creating a tri-sensory tea-drinking ritual for the future.
Keywords:
Human-Food Interaction, Food design, Gastrophysics, Crossmodal, Cymatics
Conclusion and Future Work
The Blooming Resonant Tea system has two potential applications: enhancing multisensory cocktails in bars for entertainment, and improving the experience of those who limit highly !avored beverages for well-being.
