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Whether metal or plastic, objects made up of thin shells have a characteristic way of making noise that can be simulated by a computer to synthesize sound for animated films and virtual reality. As virtual environments become more realistic and immersive, the researchers point out, computers will have to generate sounds that match the behavior of objects in real time. (Credit: James Lab/Cornell University)
CORNELL (US)—When you kick over a garbage can, it doesn’t make a pure, musical tone. That’s why the sound is so hard to synthesize. Now computer scientists have developed a practical method to generate the crashing and rumbling sounds of objects made up of thin “harmonic shells.” Continue…
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Computers get a lesson in the sound of water
The sounds produced by pouring and splashing water result from the vibration of trapped air bubbles. Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to simulate those sounds by computing how the bubbles would behave in the real world.
