[PD] Re: multi-speaker panning.. problamtic maths

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> but then to preserve energy, you should use some square root there. another 
> idea is to use sin and cos, which already add up to 1 when squared:
>
> a = cos(x) * cos(y)
> b = sin(x) * cos(y)
> c = cos(x) * sin(y)
> d = sin(x) * sin(y)

replace every x by x*pi/2 and every y by y*pi/2, but then I'm really not 
convinced that this is any better than the previous simpler formulas 
provided that square root has been used on them.

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