The image source method

2025/11/01 by U. Peter Svensson, Lauri Savioja · 1 voice
Neuroscience · Computer Science · Engineering · #Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1121/10.0039878

openalex publication_date 2025/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/11/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.

Citations

• Extension of the image model to arbitrary polyhedra
• Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics

Discussions

• REFLECTIONS The newest Reflection looks back on a 1979 article about the image source method that argued that an impulse response could be computed very efficiently if certain simplifying assumption [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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