Reflections · 5576

Hear the shape of a room

Walk through a room whose echoes are computed by real geometric acoustics — the image-source method — and rendered binaurally. Every wall throws the sound back at you, and the reflection paths reshape live as you move. Headphones on.

room 8×5 mxy —,—taps —echo — ms

Move with W A S D or the arrow keys, turn with Q / E, or click a point on the plan to walk there. On a phone, tilt to turn your head. The whole idea reads from the plan alone, in silence.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski