Abstract:

Digital waveguides have been used in signal processing for modelling room acoustics. The same technique can be used for model-based sonifications, where the given data serves to construct the three-dimensional sound propagation model. The resulting sounds are intuitive to understand as they simulate real world acoustics. As an example we introduce a digital waveguide mesh based on complex data of computational physics. This approach allows exploring sonically this three-dimensional data and unveiling spatial structures.