[sdiy] Cynthia Bruyns - Vibration Lab Software

[Richard Wentk]

At 21:03 24/10/2005, Tim Parkhurst wrote:

>VERY cool. Thanks for the link. I do have one question though: It talks 
>about Vibration Lab being a program that models instrument sounds in 3D. 
>Does this imply something like a surround sound application? I guess 
>adding spatial information would add a third dimension to sounds (even 
>something as simple as a stereo sample). Right?

Wrong. It's physical modelling using a simplified version of finite element 
analysis. The 3D comes from the fact that the software calculates how 
distortions propagate through a simulated physical model of an object.

It's clever but it's not actually all that original. There was a Linux 
package doing something similar for simple shapes doing the rounds about 
five years ago.

Richard