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Hearing Acoustics Before The Building Is Built

Posted by: Tim Halbur

27 October 2009 - 1:00pm

A new computer modeling technique called "auralization" does just that, turning architectural drawings into simulated spaces.

"The acoustical consultant assigns acoustical properties to the modeled room’s surfaces (or potential construction materials) and places sound sources and listener locations. The software then calculates the propagation of sound from the source to the listener using algorithms based on ray-tracing combined with statistical reverberation calculation and other techniques to account for sound scattering and diffraction."

Full Story: Technology Transforms Architectural Drawings into Aural Renderings
Source: ArchiTech, September 26, 2009
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