Sonel mapping: A probabilistic acoustical modeling method

Building Acoustics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-313

  Kapralos, Bill ^a,b   Jenkin, Michael ^c,d   Milios, Evangelos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c Department of Computer Science and Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC TECHNIQUE; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; RUNNING TIME; RUSSIAN ROULETTE; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; SUBTLE INTERACTION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

MAPPING;

EID: 77956268292     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/135101008786939973     Document Type: Article

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