Ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials to unify 2D/3D Ambisonic directivity designs

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contents This report on axisymmetric ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials and their use in Ambisonic directivity design in 2D and 3D presents an alternative mathematical formalism to what can be read in, e.g., my and Matthias Frank's book on Ambisonics or Jérôme Daniel's thesis, Gary Elko's differential array book chapters, or Boaz Rafaely's spherical microphone array book. Ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials are highly valuable when designing axisymmetric beams and understanding spherical t designs, and this report will shed some light on what circular, spherical, and ultraspherical axisymmetric polynomials are. While mathematically interesting by themselves already, they can be useful in spherical beamforming as described in the literature on spherical and differential microphone arrays. In this report, these ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials will be used to uniformly derive for arbitrary dimensions D the various directivity designs or Ambisonic order weightings known from literature: max-DI/basic, max-rE , supercardioid, cardioid/inphase. Is there a way to relate higher-order cardioids and supercardioids? How could one define directivity patterns with an on-axis flatness constraint?
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spellingShingle Ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials to unify 2D/3D Ambisonic directivity designs
Zotter, Franz
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
34
J.2
This report on axisymmetric ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials and their use in Ambisonic directivity design in 2D and 3D presents an alternative mathematical formalism to what can be read in, e.g., my and Matthias Frank's book on Ambisonics or Jérôme Daniel's thesis, Gary Elko's differential array book chapters, or Boaz Rafaely's spherical microphone array book. Ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials are highly valuable when designing axisymmetric beams and understanding spherical t designs, and this report will shed some light on what circular, spherical, and ultraspherical axisymmetric polynomials are. While mathematically interesting by themselves already, they can be useful in spherical beamforming as described in the literature on spherical and differential microphone arrays. In this report, these ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials will be used to uniformly derive for arbitrary dimensions D the various directivity designs or Ambisonic order weightings known from literature: max-DI/basic, max-rE , supercardioid, cardioid/inphase. Is there a way to relate higher-order cardioids and supercardioids? How could one define directivity patterns with an on-axis flatness constraint?
title Ultraspherical/Gegenbauer polynomials to unify 2D/3D Ambisonic directivity designs
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
34
J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00813