Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!calgary!!jevans
From: jevans@.ucalgary.ca (David Jevans)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Sound tracing
Summary: yes it has been done
Keywords: Ray tracing, sound tracing
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Date: 27 Dec 88 02:11:29 GMT
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Three of my friends did a sound tracer for an undergraduate project last year.
The system used directional sound sources and microphones and a ray-tracing-like
algorithm to trace the sound.  Sound sources were digitized and stored in files.
Emitters used these sound files.  At the end of the 4 month project
they could digitize something, like a person speaking, run it through the
system, then pump the results through a speaker.  An acoustic environment
was built (just like you build a model for graphics).  You could get
effects like echoes and such.  Unfortunately this was never published.
I am trying to convince them to work on it next semester...



David Jevans, U of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary AB  T2N 1N4  Canada
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