The Rectilinear 2D Mesh

Figure C.32 shows the basic layout of the rectilinear 2D waveguide mesh. It can be thought of as simulating a plane using 1D digital waveguides in the same way that a tennis racket acts as a membrane composed of 1D strings.

At each node (string intersection), we have the following simple formula for the node velocity in terms of the four incoming traveling-wave components:

By continuity of velocity in a series connection (all string endpoints must move together at the node), the outgoing velocity-wave components must be given by

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.