Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!ksbooth
From: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Sound tracing
Keywords: Ray tracing, sound tracing
Message-ID: <7488@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 88 04:05:22 GMT
References: <239@raunvis.UUCP> <413@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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We are being flooded by a lot of amateur postings about ray tracing for
sound.  This is not a new idea and it is not a new topic.  Most of the
postings appear to be quite naive approaches.  There are commercial
companies that have applied computer techniques to problems in
acoustics for many years.  There are big bucks to be made in this
field.  It is highly unlikely that a couple of hackers thinking about
the problem for a few minutes will generate startling break throughs
(possible, but not likely).

It would be nice to see just a few postings with references to the
classical references in the field.  After these have been explored, the
net is a good place to make comments and to further discuss nuances not
covered in standard books or journals.