RE: Re:MISC: Inlined Sound Support

Allan Thorpe ([email protected])
Mon, 17 Apr 95 10:56:19 PDT


Hi,
as another newcomer to the list, I have a small observation.
As excerpted from Maribeth Back's e-mail of 4/15:

>... there are a lot of useful ones, too....but a note of caution: using
>ray-tracing algorithms to make echos and to "know" how sound works might
>get frustrating, ....

Another factor not to forget is that ray-tracing algorithms DO NOT take
phase information into account (yet - if they did, then we'd have the
ability for holographic rendering, but that's another order of
magnitude of compute power away). Phase information is a very
important characteristic of sound propogation, and is, in fact a major
indicator as to direction.

- Allan Thorpe
[email protected]