[sdiy] Cynthia Bruyns - Vibration Lab Software

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Samppa Tolvanen wrote:

> On 10/24/05, Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com> 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?
>>
>> Tim (I wonder what sounds are like in Flatland) Servo
>> --
>> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
>
> Well, isn't that sort of FTT?
>
> Frequencies on one axis (x), the amount of the specific frequency on
> the other (Z) and third is the time domain (Y)?

That's not what she means.

She's actually modeling 3-D surfaces in software with a finite element 
analysis. Here's her thesis (got to my links from the posted website):

http://sukeban.code404.com/assets/pubs/cs-ms-thesis.pdf

The 3-D here really refer to 3 dimensions.

- Aaron

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