How to understand the ray-tracing code?

[emptyshelly]

Hello,thanks for your contribution ! I have learned pyroomacoustics for a while. Lines 2206 to 2220

pyroomacoustics/pyroomacoustics/room.py

Line 2206 in 0ccf8ae

if self.simulator_state["rt_needed"]:

and lines 2277 to 2301

pyroomacoustics/pyroomacoustics/room.py

Line 2277 in 0ccf8ae

if self.simulator_state["rt_needed"]:

of the room.py are related to ray tracing code,I would like to know whether there are literatures or other references for the ray tracing method.How did you write the rt_needed code? Thanks a lot.

[fakufaku]

Hi, this is a good question indeed, and the documentation should be clearer.

The simulator is heavily based upon Dirk Schroeder's PhD thesis:

Dirk Schroeder, Physically based real-time auralization of interactive virtual environments, 2011.

I have also found the wayverb documentation to be very detailed and useful. It is a different project implementing a similar simulator.