[sldev] Wind Sound CPU usage.

Tateru Nino tateru.nino at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 20:45:29 PST 2008



Jason Giglio wrote:
> Matthew Dowd wrote:
>> Do we actually *need* generated wind noise or would a looped sample 
>> be sufficient? If repetition is a problem, a few samples which can be 
>> randomly interleaved might work?
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>
> I did some testing.  It takes a lot of samples to even come close to 
> true white noise.  Open Audacity and make 0.1 seconds of white noise 
> and loop it.  It doesn't sound anything like white noise, and that's 
> 4400 samples.
Thankfully RL wind isn't even close to white noise. White noise and pink 
noise drives me absolutely loco. Literally reduces me to a shaking heap 
after a few minutes.

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