Project Number
- 30
Title
- Virtual Acoustic Environments: The Convolvotron
Description
- Real-time interactive simulation of simple room audio dynamics.
Contact
- Elizabeth M. Wenzel, Scott H. Foster
Affiliation
- NASA Ames Research Center, Crystal River Engineering
Address
- Elizabeth M. Wenzel
- NASA Ames Research Center
- MS 262-2
- Moffett Field, California 94035
- +1.415.604.6290
- +1.415.604.3729 fax
- Scott H. Foster
- Crystal River Engineering
- 12350 Wards Ferry Road
- Groveland, California 95321
- +1.209.962.6382
- NASA Ames Research Center
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- The Convolvotron is a real-time interactive simulation of simple room audio dynamics that allows users to manipulate environmental parameters (size, position, sound generator) and hear the expected results.
- Both a 2D and 3D interface to drive a visual simulation and audio signal processing system that synthesizes the acoustic shaping of intensity and phase of the Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF).
- Simulation of acoustic environments can lead to benefits in architectural design, music recording, entertainment, multi-dimensional visualization, and interfaces for the blind (to name a few)
Sight
- Fake Space Labs BOOM2, SGI workstation
Sound
- Crystal River Engineering Convolvotron
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 302 - spatial sound
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
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