Hello everyone, My name is Michel Robert. I’m a Computer Science undergraduate with a minor in Math. This is my final semester in my degree! I decided to take this class because I heard it was fun! Also I was interested in design and am interested to learn how computing is used to create art and other objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve played the violin for about 15 years, and so i was looking for design projects that had to do with music. I had a hard time finding much but I found this project about acoustic reflectors which I found pretty interesting. The project was on retroreflection of sound where sound is reflected back to the the source regardless where the source is. They designed corner cube retroreflectors using right-angled corners to reflect the sound. This is particularly useful for keeping sound where you want it. It can be useful in musical practice rooms so you can hear yourself well and also in open areas using separators to keep sound from bleeding into unwanted areas. They used computational design as well as parametric modeling to design their reflectors to design the reflectors. The video on the sound wave simulations is pretty cool seeing how they were able to use different sound reflection designs in different scenarios.
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