Doug James: Computer-generated sound catches its graphical sibling
The Future of Everything
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Computer Graphics and Computer Generated Sound
The best motivation for realistic computer generated sound is laziness. So we just compute reality in the computer and has sound too thankfully. Yes, that really does make sense. And I don't want to have to click through 40,000 tab panes and say play this sound when this A object hits object K. You just automatically do it because there's a method that gets called. The usual explanation that computers are so slow and nobody would ever want to do this is just doesn't make any sense anymore as we have super fast parallel computers.
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