Novel applications of re-tooled open-source acoustic simulation algorithms
Arthur W. van der Harten, Cameron Goodman · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019
Pachyderm Acoustic Simulation is an open-source acoustics simulation tool that is freely available to the public through the General Public License 3.0. In the 11 years, that Pachyderm Acoustic Simulation has been available, its open and conventional acoustics simulation algorithms (including geometrical, finite volume, transfer matrix, etc.) have been applied in ways that are less conventional by certain creative individuals. Users leverage access to the algorithms through its native interface, grasshopper (for visual generation of algorithms), IronPython, and the software’s native source language C#. Examples of these creative applications include augmented geometrical visualizations, customized finite volume method simulations for proof of concept, visualization of material data, and form-finding using genetic algorithms. This talk will explore several exemplary cases in which a user successfully applied the simulation and calculation algorithms in a way that was not originally intended.