Sounding liquids: Automatic sound synthesis from fluid simulation

  • Authors:
  • William Moss;Hengchin Yeh;Jeong-Mo Hong;Ming C. Lin;Dinesh Manocha

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;Dongguk University, Seoul Campus;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a novel approach for synthesizing liquid sounds directly from visual simulation of fluid dynamics. Our approach takes advantage of the fact that the sound generated by liquid is mainly due to the vibration of resonating bubbles in the medium and performs automatic sound synthesis by coupling physically-based equations for bubble resonance with multiple fluid simulators. We effectively demonstrate our system on several benchmarks using a real-time shallow-water fluid simulator as well as a hybrid grid-SPH simulator.