14/07/09

Date:  14/07/09

Phase:  Engineering

Version:  None

Summary of Activities:

Today's activities have been significant to the development of the environment.  Particularly in terms of the environment's structure, where it was decided some major changes needed to occur in order to meet the needed functionality of inducing a soundscape with a sense of realism.  Two of the major facets of doing so may have been overlooked, more specific the delay (inner-aural time difference) and the timbre (inner-aural intensity difference) of the recorded digital audio, which is imperative to human sound localization.  Therefore, the following are the changes to the environment's structure:

1. Added channel-specific filter for tweaking of the audio's timbre
   
2. Added channel-specific delay (milliseconds)
   
3. Number of sound modules has changed from 6 to 4

Notes:

The next couple of days will be focused on meeting this task and tentatively the completion of the beta.  These changes will allow the user to have greater control as well as the ability to correctly implement pertinent sound effects and theory (haas effect, head shadowing, etc.).  The number of modules was reducing in order to help meet deadlines for beta.  The change is not expected to adversely effect the quality of the environment.