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Seeing Sound.(Technology Information)

Computer Graphics World

| August 01, 2001 | MAHONEY, DIANA PHILLIPS | COPYRIGHT 2001 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Thanks to advanced simulation and visualization techniques, sound has never looked so good

What does sound look like, and who wants to know? Mostly it looks like funky abstract art, and everyone from urban planners to VR developers to concert pianists wants to see it.

Actually, depending on who is looking at it and why, sound has many different visual guises. At Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, for example, sound appears as beams of light that vary in length and intensity relative to their distance from the point of origin and the obstacles encountered along their path. At the Center of New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of ...

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