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phetsims / wave-interference

"Wave Interference" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Make it possible to hear the difference between constructive and destructive interference #400

Open samreid opened 5 years ago

samreid commented 5 years ago

In https://github.com/phetsims/wave-interference/issues/80#issuecomment-495464104, it says:

However, it would be GREAT if there was a speaker option for the sound wave generator so they could HEAR the difference between constructive and destructive interference patterns. I've seen this tool in other sims you have created.

As far as I understand, we do not plan to implement this feature. And it would be unclear how to implement it given our emergent (rather than explicit) lattice model. But I wanted to raise it for discussion. @arouinfar do you think we should close this issue? Or raise for discussion at next sonification meeting? I forget if we already decided it.

arouinfar commented 5 years ago

@samreid this would only be relevant to the Wave Interference sound design (no interference in Waves Intro). In Wave Interference I think it would be crucial to depict interference in the sound design. For sound, we'd probably need some kind of mic/speaker tool (similar to the Wave Detector, but just one probe) that would play the sine wave at a given point in the lattice. A more general approach could be to sonify the probes/signal of the Wave Detector itself.

However, this is way beyond the scope of the Waves Intro sound design, so we can defer until the time comes for the sound design of Wave Interference.