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- Thomas Funkhouser
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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- Nicolas Tsingos
- INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
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- Ingrid Carlbom
- Lucent Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
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- Gary Elko
- Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920
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- Mohan Sondhi
- Avaya Labs, Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920
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- James E. West
- The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Gopal Pingali
- IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York 10532
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- Patrick Min
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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- Addy Ngan
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
説明
<jats:p>A difficult challenge in geometrical acoustic modeling is computing propagation paths from sound sources to receivers fast enough for interactive applications. This paper describes a beam tracing method that enables interactive updates of propagation paths from a stationary source to a moving receiver in large building interiors. During a precomputation phase, convex polyhedral beams traced from the location of each sound source are stored in a “beam tree” representing the regions of space reachable by potential sequences of transmissions, diffractions, and specular reflections at surfaces of a 3D polygonal model. Then, during an interactive phase, the precomputed beam tree(s) are used to generate propagation paths from the source(s) to any receiver location at interactive rates. The key features of this beam tracing method are (1) it scales to support large building environments, (2) it models propagation due to edge diffraction, (3) it finds all propagation paths up to a given termination criterion without exhaustive search or risk of under-sampling, and (4) it updates propagation paths at interactive rates. The method has been demonstrated to work effectively in interactive acoustic design and virtual walkthrough applications.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115 (2), 739-756, 2004-01-30
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)