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Granular Audio Synthesis
If you want to make a sound shorter, you can play it faster. Doing this also makes it higher pitch unfortunately. If you want to make a sound longer, you can play it more slowly. This also makes it…
Alan Wolfe
Programming, Graphics, Gamedev, Exotic Computation, Audio Synthesis
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Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm
If you are looking to synthesize the sound of a plucked string, there is an amazingly simple algorithm for doing so called the Karplus-Strong Algorithm. Give it a listen: KarplusStrong.wav Here it …
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Demystifying Floating Point Precision
Floating point numbers have limited precision. If you are a game programmer, you have likely encountered bugs where things start breaking after too much time has elapsed, or after something has mov…
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Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 1: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive
Posts in this series: Basic Camera, Diffuse, Emissive Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections Fresnel, Rough Refraction & Absorption, Orbit Camera Below is a screenshot of the shadertoy that g…
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Dissecting "Tiny Clouds" shadertoy (2017)
There is an amazing shadertoy called “Tiny Clouds” by stubbe (twitter: @Stubbesaurus) which flies you through nearly photorealistic clouds in only 10 lines of code / 280 characters (2 o…