On 20/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Smith</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jeff@smithicus.com">jeff@smithicus.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks very much for that extremely concise explanation, Kas.<br> Fortunately, C++ doesn&#39;t scare me. I&#39;m a black-belt when it comes to<br> rendering visual phenomena, but a lowly white-belt-wannabe with audio,<br>
 so I&#39;m not at all surprised that noise lies at the heart of natural<br> audio synthesis, since it is so ubiquitous in visual synthesis.</blockquote><div><br>Sure. I think it&#39;s actually the same &quot;noise&quot; at times. If you brush a large cymbal the resulting sound is largely a function of the un-even surface... but so is the typical way a cymbal has of scattering the light.<br>
<br>Kas.<br>&nbsp;</div><br></div>