These are the supporting documents for
J. D. Reiss, H. E. Tez, R. Selfridge, 'A comparative perceptual evaluation of thunder synthesis techniques', 150th Audio Engineering Convention, May 2021
- Listening Test Samples - contains the 6 samples used in the listening test
- Code - the original code for several algorithms described in the paper. Copies are kept here only for archive purposes. Please use the originals and observe their copyright and credit policies
- Blanco - from Blanco, F., La Rocca, P., Petta, C., & Riggi, F. (2008). Modelling digital thunder. European Journal of Physics, 30(1), 139. Code provided by Riggi
- Brookes - https://joebrookssound.com/2016/11/30/thunder-generator-for-maxmsp/ , code provided by the author
- Farnell - from http://aspress.co.uk/sd/examples.tar.gz , code accompanying Farnell, A. (2010). Designing sound. Mit Press.
- Saksela - from https://www.kaistale.com/blog/140809thunder/index.html and https://github.com/kai5z/Thunder-simulation
- Unknown - from https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/1028/synthetic-thunder , this was not evaluated.
- Not provided, but still evaluated, is the thunder model from Selfridge. This is part of Nemisindo and too much effort to decouple from the overall system. It can be tried out at https://nemisindo.com/app/main-panel/thunder.html
- Data - Original data and spreadsheets used to generate figures. The comments in evaluation were not used in the paper
- Paper - the paper and presentation