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

2010-11-05 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-05, Franz Zotter wrote: I don't know how rigorous your "rE should be constant" constraint is. I don't want to incite another war, but... rE and rV are just metrics evaluated over the full sphere of directions. They could attain pretty much any value given a certain speaker setup a

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

2010-11-05 Thread Franz Zotter
Hi, On Friday 05 November 2010 07:12:03 f...@libero.it wrote: > On the other hand, this is an issue if you use the hermitian transpose as an > inverse, but the pseudo-inverse should solve the problem, I believe. > > This is what I know about loudspeaker arrangement, but I have no idea how > thi

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

2010-11-05 Thread fons
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:12:03AM +0100, f...@libero.it wrote: > 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 >

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

2010-11-04 Thread f...@libero.it
be all equal (apart from the null-space of the pseudo inverse - i.e. S.V.=0, if you allow me this lack of math. rigour...) I hope this helps. Greetings from SF Filippo >Message: 9 >Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 02:11:21 +0100 >From: f...@kokkinizita.net >Subject: Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- Fo

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

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
From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Sampo Syreeni [de...@iki.fi] Sent: 04 November 2010 21:36 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only On 2010-11-04, f...@kokkinizit

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

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

2010-11-03 Thread fons
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:36:45PM +, d...@york.ac.uk wrote: > I'm still not sure what is bothering me about this but I _think_ > it's something to do with the precise nature of the relationship > between the symmetries in the icosahedron and the symmetries in the > 3rd order spherical harmoni

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

2010-11-03 Thread fons
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:08:21AM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2010-11-03, d...@york.ac.uk wrote: > > >I'm still not sure what is bothering me about this but I _think_ > >it's something to do with the precise nature of the relationship > >between the symmetries in the icosahedron and the symm

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

2010-11-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2010-11-03, d...@york.ac.uk wrote: I'm still not sure what is bothering me about this but I _think_ it's something to do with the precise nature of the relationship between the symmetries in the icosahedron and the symmetries in the 3rd order spherical harmonics. Hmm. Why don't you first

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

2010-11-03 Thread dgm2
I'm still not sure what is bothering me about this but I _think_ it's something to do with the precise nature of the relationship between the symmetries in the icosahedron and the symmetries in the 3rd order spherical harmonics. The pictures you posted look like a spatial aliasing problem but,

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

2010-11-03 Thread Josh Atkins
I'm pretty sure that the per order windowing functions aren't doing what you're expecting with the non-axisymmetric beam patterns that mode-matching decoding produces. I've seen people do this weighting before with decoding using pinv (I think there's a recent paper by N. Epain from a 3rd order ar

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

2010-11-03 Thread fons
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:32:27AM -0700, Aaron Heller wrote: > Fons... I assume what your doing is making a decoder with shelf gains > given by Moreau and Daniel and then testing it numerically and not > getting the expected value of rE. Exactly. > I have code to do that as well and > will ta

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

2010-11-03 Thread Aaron Heller
Fons... I assume what your doing is making a decoder with shelf gains given by Moreau and Daniel and then testing it numerically and not getting the expected value of rE. I have code to do that as well and will take a look it it after the AES Convention this weekend. Aaron On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 a

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

2010-11-03 Thread Aaron Heller
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:07:40PM -0700, Eric Benjamin wrote: > >> I don't know how to compute the gain factors for 3rd order other than by >> numerical methods.  I'm aware that Moreau published the gains of (1.000, >> .862, >> .612, and .305) but I don'

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

2010-11-03 Thread fons
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:02:12AM +, Dave Malham wrote: > Something else - are you solving for face mounted or vertices mounted > speakers? There are 20 speakers, positions correspond to the faces of an icosahedron or the vertices of a dodecahedron. 12 wouldn't work for 3rd order, you need

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

2010-11-03 Thread Dave Malham
Something else - are you solving for face mounted or vertices mounted speakers? Dave On 03/11/2010 09:40, Dave Malham wrote: Hi Fons, Have you any images of how the irregularity is distributed? There's something about the icosahedron that's niggling at my brain but I can't qui

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

2010-11-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/03/2010 12:07 AM, Eric Benjamin wrote: Fons, I don't know how to compute the gain factors for 3rd order other than by numerical methods. I'm aware that Moreau published the gains of (1.000, .862, .612, and .305) but I don't know if those are correct or if there was a general solution publ

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

2010-11-03 Thread Dave Malham
Hi Fons, Have you any images of how the irregularity is distributed? There's something about the icosahedron that's niggling at my brain but I can't quite put my finger on it, so I thought an image might help Dave On 02/11/2010 22:51, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, For

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

2010-11-02 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:07:40PM -0700, Eric Benjamin wrote: > I don't know how to compute the gain factors for 3rd order other than by > numerical methods. I'm aware that Moreau published the gains of (1.000, > .862, > .612, and .305) but I don't know if those are correct or if there was a

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

2010-11-02 Thread Eric Benjamin
n? Eric - Original Message From: "f...@kokkinizita.net" To: Surround sound list Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 3:51:00 PM Subject: [Sursound] Help !! -- For AMB-decoding theory freaks only Hello all, For most of the day and evening I've been trying to find the error in s

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

2010-11-02 Thread fons
Hello all, For most of the day and evening I've been trying to find the error in some of the code I use to compute AMB decoders and which has been updated and extended recently. It fails on one of the test cases. If - I compute a systematic 3rd order decoder for a regular icosahedron, using th