why is max_angle (and min) limited in bellhop uwapm?

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why is max_angle (and min) limited in bellhop uwapm? #88

Closed nlbeaird closed 10 months ago

nlbeaird commented 11 months ago

Hi, this is a very useful package, thanks! Apologies if this isn't the place for this question. I'm fairly new to this, but I'm wondering why the max_angle and min_angle in setting the bellhope env file are limited to (-90, 90)? shouldn't one be able to have an omni directional source that ins't on the edge of a domain? Thanks for any insight

mchitre commented 11 months ago

This is a design choice made by the developer of BELLHOP (which arlpy simply wraps, and so has no opinion on). I believe the decision is reasonable for many scenarios – especially if there is no range dependence, due to the symmetry of the environment.