Jun 5 2009Finally, I Can Sleep At Night: Researchers Develop Algorithms To Mimic Water Sounds
The watery sounds you hear in this video were all made using algorithms developed by researchers at Cornell, because, honestly, curing diseases can wait.
Doug James and Changxi Zheng, researchers at Cornell University, have developed a way to simulate the sounds of flowing or dripping water, which in real life are produced by tiny air bubbles that compress and expand due to surface tension, creating sound waves in the water.
So by using the geometry of a 3D scene, the Harmonic Fluids algorithm they developed can calculate where the air bubbles would have been created in real life and how they would have moved, which allows realistic accompanying sounds to be generated.
Now don't get me wrong, that's neat as hell, I just wish they would have made their research a little more useful in the real world. Like, I dunno, developing an algorithm to mimic the mating calls of prehistoric dinosaurs. Am I right? If we're not gonna cure cancer I should at least get laid.
Cornell Researchers Develop Algorithms To Simulate The Sounds Of Fluids [ohgizmo]
Reader Comments
1. Jimmothy - June 5, 2009 3:01 PM
coo coo
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ummm..... awesome?
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10. regor - June 5, 2009 3:13 PM
Some of those sound like you're under water..
11. Funeral Balloons - June 5, 2009 3:13 PM
They're not very convincing.
12. Pew³ - June 5, 2009 3:15 PM
Wow!!! This is amazing!!! Do you realize what this means?!?!?! The implications alone are astonishing!!
Actually, no, I don't care.
13. GLADIATOR - June 5, 2009 3:21 PM
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14. mike@digigraph-design.com - June 5, 2009 3:32 PM
Wow, what a huge waste of time.
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16. Angel Mass - June 5, 2009 3:46 PM
Great, not I have to go to pee
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18. Pat - June 5, 2009 4:32 PM
Fantastic. Because cancer can wait.
19. jake lymes - June 5, 2009 4:49 PM
I was hoping for a nice bong water sound. you know, like right when you pull the carb? Now THAT is some therapeutic shitz right there.
20. Buch Whacker - June 5, 2009 4:52 PM
Doesn't sound anything like really water. Now I have to go back and crack the tap open to get that authentic drip drip sound.
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23. KP - June 5, 2009 10:10 PM
Ya, I'm sure the people responsible for this are way smarter.better educated than I am but it still sounds like muffled recording off an old SFX audio cassette.
24. Daisy - June 5, 2009 10:52 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja were out in the desert, and Max ate some peyote. He thought Baja was the Loch Ness monster, and ran away from her. Unfortunately Max had the car keys, so Baja ran after him.
25. DAJ - June 6, 2009 2:07 AM
So let me get this straight, instead of just recording sounds of water and creating 64 bit graphics to accompany it, these Cornell students researched sounds of water...
sounds almost as useless as me researching the effects of weed instead of smoking it.
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27. Darth - June 6, 2009 10:23 AM
It's pretty neat but people will get lyric from this maybe deep in the Sahara desert.
28. Nero - June 6, 2009 10:24 AM
In our spartanic hut we're hearing this noise all day.
29. I <3 - June 6, 2009 1:44 PM
I <3 water and the sounds that it makes when falling a short distance.
30. Poorchoice - June 6, 2009 6:42 PM
Great.That's just brilliant.The fact that any amount of money was spent on poorly simulating the sound of water just gave me a hernia.Cheers.
31. naas - June 7, 2009 3:27 PM
I wrote this before viewing it because I knew I would freeze in place watching this
32. supernova_hq - June 8, 2009 11:36 PM
That sounds absolutely HORRIBLE. It sounds nothing like water. It sounds more like popcorn than water!
This is the closest anyone has gotten to a simulated water sound??? What a waste of time...