You're spot on there. I will develop the stereo image as I work on the environment model.
But interestingly enough, lightning _is_ an explosion, one hell of a big explosion. The plasma is as hot as the Sun for an instant and that's why the air expands, the energy in a lightning bold makes most bombs seem like little fireworks. The difference is, and this is unusual, it radiates in a cylinder not a sphere, and sound comes from a simultanoeus extent (because the bolt moves at the speed of electricity which is closer to the speed of light than the speed of sound) What I have is still a bit too much like Scooby Doo Castle thunder. Having once been caught in a storm with bolts hitting a few hundred meters from me I know from experience it sounds nothing like that, it's a very difficult sound to capture synthetically. The way I'm trying now is a kind of physical model, taking into account thousands of tiny wavelets called N-waves that each come from a kink in the lightning bolt - strangely (because of interference patterns that cancel out) the shape of the lighning bolt has a direct correlation to the sound. cheers, a. On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:29:11 +0900 "hard off" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just a suggestion: > > i think the reason why they sound a bit like explosions, rather than > thunder, is because the cracks of thunder are propogated directly in > front of you. maybe some sort of spatialization could make the crack > appear more overhead, and then the rumble lower down? -- Use the source _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list