Computational design of metallophone contact sounds
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Bharaj, Gaurav
Levin, David I. W.
Tompkin, James
Fei, Yun
Pfister, Hanspeter
Matusik, Wojciech
Zheng, Changxi
Date Issued
November 2015
Journal
ACM Transactions on Graphics
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Gaurav Bharaj, David I. W. Levin, James Tompkin, Yun Fei, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, and Changxi Zheng. 2015. Computational design of metallophone contact sounds. ACM Trans. Graph. 34, 6, Article 223 (October 2015), 13 pages.
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Abstract
Metallophones such as glockenspiels produce sounds in response to contact. Building these instruments is a complicated process, limiting their shapes to well-understood designs such as bars. We automatically optimize the shape of arbitrary 2D and 3D objects through deformation and perforation to produce sounds when struck which match user-supplied frequency and amplitude spectra. This optimization requires navigating a complex energy landscape, for which we develop Latin Complement Sampling to both speed up finding minima and provide probabilistic bounds on landscape exploration. Our method produces instruments which perform similarly to those that have been professionally-manufactured, while also expanding the scope of shape and sound that can be realized, e.g., single object chords. Furthermore, we can optimize sound spectra to create overtones and to dampen specific frequencies. Thus our technique allows even novices to design metallophones with unique sound and appearance.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1145/2816795.2818108
