Diffraction culling for virtual-acoustic simulations

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 907-920

  Calamia, Paul T ^a,c   Markham, Benjamin E ^a,d   Svensson, U Peter ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d ACENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS; ANGULAR DISTANCES; AUDIBLE EFFECTS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DIFFRACTION CALCULATIONS; DIFFRACTION COMPONENTS; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; INPUT SIGNALS; PERCEPTUAL CONSEQUENCES; PROCESSING TIME; PROPAGATION PATHS; SHADOW BOUNDARIES; SHORTEST PATHS; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 59149102667     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918108     Document Type: Article

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