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Doug James: Computer-generated sound catches its graphical sibling

The Future of Everything

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Do You Know the Details of the Molecules?

A lot of the physics that we do is classical mechanics and we have just bulk deformations of structures right so we don't need to know the detailed molecular structure. So for larger structures they vibrate for tiny things like a marble or ball bearing it will hit the ground and maybe vibrate at 50 kilohertz as the lowest frequency but if you play back the sound generated by those this vibrating you know a ball bearing hitting the ground you basically get no sound. If I keep playing these guitars won't hear anything above beat case and beat towns up yeah exactly.

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