Re: [LAD] a treasure trove of information on "Physical Audio Signal Processing"

On Mon, September 27, 2010 7:49 am, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> 2010/9/27 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>:
>>
>> On Mon, September 27, 2010 7:03 am, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
>>> 2010/9/26  <fons@email-addr-hidden>:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I recently (last friday) got my MSc graduation with a thesis on
>>>>> physics-based (a.k.a. physical) modeling for sound processing and was
>>>>> just about to post a link on this mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://naspro.atheme.org/public/mt_dangelo.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Auguri & congratulations !
>>>
>>> Ti ringrazio :-)
>>>
>>>> The tube amp example is really nice - including the interaction
>>>> with the speaker - all of it: electrical, mechanical and acoustic.
>>>> This is also the first time I see both the impedance and mobility
>>>> models explained in a graduation paper. The fact that the two
>>>> exist is the source of *lots* of confusion - you did well to
>>>> include this, even if it's just a detail in the whole paper.
>>>
>>> Well, since almost nobody is into this stuff at my home university I
>>> thought it was a good idea to try to explain most things, even if not
>>> in much detail (the whole thing was mostly prepared during my Erasmus
>>> exchange programme in Helsinki, and there is a whole department
>>> working on this stuff there).
>>>
>>>> A question: how many iterations does the tube model typically
>>>> require to converge to the required precision ?
>>>
>>> I have to admit I don't know, I will check and let you know. ;-)
>>>
>>>> I hope you will continue to develop Permafrost, even without
>>>> optimisation it would make a very nice simulation tool.
>>>
>>> Eh... it depends on what is going to happen now, whether I will find a
>>> job or continue within the university and how much spare time I will
>>> be able to have. Money, damn money!
>>>
>>> In the meanwhile I already restarted working on it and there is also a
>>> friend of mine helping me (but he's a total beginner in "serious"
>>> programming).. let's see what happens.
>>>
>>> BTW, if somebody can offer me a job or a PhD or anything to keep me
>>> working on these things... :-)
>>>
>>
>> You never know with this list. It might help if you say what kind of job
>> would enable you to do that.
>
> I guess whatever gives me enough money to decently survive working on
> sound processing software, possibly on processing/synthesis/analysis
> plugins and/or applications or physics-based/white-box systems'
> simulation.
>
> Maybe it could also be possible by doing something else that leaves me
> enough free time to keep on working on this without starving, or maybe
> some academic position (doctoral studies, research, I don't know
> what).
>
> It doesn't matter where, as long as it is not a dangerous place
> (preferably Europe or Canada/USA).
>
> I'm open to any offer BTW.
>
> Stefano
>

Well there is a lot of work in Australia at the moment if you feel like a
move.

Feel free to contact me off list if you want more info.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
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