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From: elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume)
Subject: Re: Sound tracing
Message-ID: <8812241607.AA29086@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>
Keywords: Ray tracing, sound tracing
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <239@raunvis.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 88 11:07:02 EST

In article <239@raunvis.UUCP> kjartan@raunvis.UUCP (Kjartan Pierre Emilsson Jardedlisfraedi) writes [reformatted]:
> Has anyone had any experience with the application of ray-tracing
> techniques to simulate accoustics, i.e the formal equivalent of
> ray-tracing using sound instead of light.  Can a ray-tracing algorithm
> be easily adapted to sound tracing. How important are secondary rays,
> and how good is the simulation using only first and second generation
> rays ?

I distinctly recall that Prof. David Kirkpatrick and a student of his
were working on precisely this problem a couple of years back.  They
are at the University of British Columbia.  My e-mail address for him may
be dated.  Try one of kirk@[cs.ubc.ca | ubc-cs.uucp | ubc-cs!ubc-vision].
Is there a UBC'er who can give a better address?
-- 
Eugene Fiume
Dynamic Graphics Project
University of Toronto
elf@dgp.toronto.edu