Real-time acoustic modeling for distributed virtual environments

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 365-374

  Funkhouser, Thomas ^a   Min, Patrick ^a   Carlbom, Ingrid ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Auralization; Beam tracing; Virtual environment systems; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LOCATION; REVERBERATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; AURALIZATIONS; BEAM TRACING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GRACEFUL DEGRADATION; TERMINATION CRITERIA;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85016891988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/311535.311590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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