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The sound of digital water

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New Scientist: Although image special effects are largely done by computers nowadays, sound special effects are still based on physical props.

Doug James and Changxi Zheng at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have discovered how to reproduce the sound of flowing and dripping by modeling the way water creates sound in the real world (see video, above).

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