Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread f...@libero.it
Fons the icosahedron (faces) does not provide a uniform spherical sampling in the sense that the spherical harmonics are orthogonal (well spotted Dave!). If you look for example at my thesis p. 167 you can observe that with such distribution the 3rd order (sampled) spherical harmonics are not or

Re: [Sursound] Hamasaki 22.2

2010-11-04 Thread John Lundsten
Sampo Syreeni wrote but the real treat is the companion document at http://wiki.xiph.org/Channel_mapping_examples where I mapped just about every format in existence to what we came up with in channel semantics. Do take a look at it and disseminate the work if right. Well it looks "right to me"

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread fons
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:20:40AM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2010-11-04, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > >But it should have been clear that the context was testing some > >code supposed to produce a max-rE decode but failing to do so. The > >question then is why not - is the code buggy or

[Sursound] OT: colors (was Re: Help !!...)

2010-11-04 Thread Aaron Heller
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2010-11-04, Peter Lennox wrote: >> I've no idea what you're talking about, but then I've no idea what my wife >> means when she explains why this red is better than that one, [...] > > It takes a gay man to figure out precise colors, or a w

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-04, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: But it should have been clear that the context was testing some code supposed to produce a max-rE decode but failing to do so. The question then is why not - is the code buggy or are my expectations wrong (it turned out to be the last). And my tenta

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-04, Peter Lennox wrote: I love it when you egg-heads start talking dirty. It's only dirty once you invoke the axiom of choice or somesuch vile notion: http://xkcd.com/804/ . Apparently they now also have a site to explain it: http://www.explainxkcd.com/2010/10/11/pumpkin-carving/

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread fons
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:36:21PM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2010-11-04, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > >Seems you are completely out of touch with the context of this thread. > > That more than possible. But still, if you don't mind my asking, why > be so harsh about it, all of a sudden

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Lennox
I love it when you egg-heads start talking dirty. I've no idea what you're talking about, but then I've no idea what my wife means when she explains why this red is better than that one, nor when my son explains how the design of a differential could be better designed for off-roading, nor when

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-04, d...@york.ac.uk wrote: The interesting thing is, if I interpreted your earlier emails right, that having _some_ portion of 3rd order is better than having none at all. Well, of course. Take for instance the 5.0 ITU setup, and try to imagine *not* how you would approach it from

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-04, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Seems you are completely out of touch with the context of this thread. That more than possible. But still, if you don't mind my asking, why be so harsh about it, all of a sudden? There's nothing 'naïve' about in-phase. It may look as something fun

Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only

2010-11-04 Thread dgm2
On Nov 4 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: it turns out that the 3rd degree spherical harmonics are neither normalised nor orthogonal when summed over the set of directions corresponding to the faces of an icosahedron (but lower degrees are). This is confirmed by the set of singular values obtai