High-order diffraction and diffuse reflections for interactive sound propagation in large environments

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Schissler, Carl ^a   Mehra, Ravish ^a   Manocha, Dinesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Diffuse reflections; Simplification; Sound propagation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION; HIGHER-ORDER DIFFRACTION; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INTERACTIVE SOUNDS; LARGE-SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; SIMPLIFICATION; SOUND PROPAGATION; DIFFRACTION REFLECTIONS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84905754375     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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