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Re:How many holes does the universe have? by bgoated01 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @12:07AM (#40542789)
I’ve not heard it described that way before; I would love to hear more of what you mean by this. The way I learned it in my upper level acoustics courses in college was image sources: hard surfaces are effectively mirrors for sound, so just like you see a copy of an object in an actual mirror, you hear a copy of the speaker coming as if from inside the wall. With three surfaces meeting in the corner, you effectively get 8 sound sources instead of just one. For low frequencies these virtual sources constructively interfere and make louder sound. Of course, this is just a more intuitive way of thinking of the effects of boundary conditions to a partial differential equation.
Re:How many holes does the universe have? by mendelab on Saturday June 01, 2024 @03:25AM (#40543650)
Light reflectors (e.g., for bikes) are also made out of many little corners to reflect the light to its source.

For sound, it should be the same with a corner of a room, it ~doubles the sound in the vicinity of the corner, hence a ~3dB increase