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Karplus–Strong string synthesis is a method of physical modelling synthesis that loops a short waveform through a filtered delay line to simulate the sound of a hammered or plucked string or some types of percussion.

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Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
Methanol is an ideal feedstock for bio-manufacturing. Converting it into lactate, a monomer for biodegradable plastic, offers a promising strategy for addressing the challenge of white pollution. However, it remains difficult to engineer microbes to produce lactate from methanol due to methanol toxicity and strong competition between product synthesis and cell growth.

"Smallwood’s signature synthesis of the Black gospel tradition and a host of musical influences, especially classical traditions, made his pen one of the most distinct in musical history.”
—Braxton Shelley, George Washington Williams Professor of Divinity and Music, commenting in Christianity Today on the death of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood

Learning to Build Shapes by Extrusion
Thor Vestergaard Christiansen, Karran Pandey, Alba Reinders, Karan Singh, Morten Rieger Hannemose, J. Andreas B{\ae}rentzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22858
arXiv:2601.22858v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Text Encoded Extrusion (TEE), a text-based representation that expresses mesh construction as sequences of face extrusions rather than polygon lists, and a method for generating 3D meshes from TEE using a large language model (LLM). By learning extrusion sequences that assemble a mesh, similar to the way artists create meshes, our approach naturally supports arbitrary output face counts and produces manifold meshes by design, in contrast to recent transformer-based models. The learnt extrusion sequences can also be applied to existing meshes - enabling editing in addition to generation. To train our model, we decompose a library of quadrilateral meshes with non-self-intersecting face loops into constituent loops, which can be viewed as their building blocks, and finetune an LLM on the steps for reassembling the meshes by performing a sequence of extrusions. We demonstrate that our representation enables reconstruction, novel shape synthesis, and the addition of new features to existing meshes.
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oooh look what i just found:-
Transform Images Into Sound in the browser
"SpectroTrace converts any image into audio using a fascinating technique called additive synthesis. When you play the generated sound through a spectrogram analyzer, the original image magically reappears." 🦟
https://www.spectrotrace.org/

One-clock synthesis problems
S{\l}awomir Lasota, Mathieu Lehaut, Julie Parreaux, Rados{\l}aw Pi\'orkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04902 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.04902 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.04902
arXiv:2601.04902v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton, and one of the players can elapse time. We perform a systematic study of synthesis problems in all variants of timed games, depending on which player's winning condition is specified, and which player's strategy (or controller, a finite-memory strategy) is sought. As our main result we prove ubiquitous undecidability in all the variants, both for strategy and controller synthesis, already for winning conditions specified by one-clock automata. This strengthens and generalises previously known undecidability results. We also fully characterise those cases where finite memory is sufficient to win, namely existence of a strategy implies existence of a controller. All our results are stated in the timed setting, while analogous results hold in the data setting where one-clock automata are replaced by one-register ones.
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Great post by Aaron Tay: 'the next time you see an “AI-powered search engine,” maybe the first question shouldn’t be “Is this AI?” but rather “What kind of AI, “where and how it is used in the pipeline”.'
From: @…

Aaron Tay (@aarontay@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image [Last blog post of 2025] "AI-powered search" hides at least 4 different things—post-retrieval features, semantic search, LLM ranking, and synthesis. Your concerns about one may not apply to another. New post unpacking what's actually under the hood. https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-do-we-actually-mean-by-ai-powered

an exquisite blend of Karplus-Strong synthesis, distortion and just intonation

StereoSpace: Depth-Free Synthesis of Stereo Geometry via End-to-End Diffusion in a Canonical Space
Tjark Behrens, Anton Obukhov, Bingxin Ke, Fabio Tosi, Matteo Poggi, Konrad Schindler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10959

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- BiPO: Bidirectional Partial Occlusion Network for Text-to-Motion Synthesis
Seong-Eun Hong, Soobin Lim, Juyeong Hwang, Minwook Chang, Hyeongyeop Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00112 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113587599346489745
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Synthesis of a high intensity, superthermal muonium beam for gravity and laser spectroscopy experiments
Jesse Zhang, Aldo Antognini, Marek Bartkowiak, Klaus Kirch, Andreas Knecht, Damian Goeldi, David Taqqu, Robert Waddy, Frederik Wauters, Paul Wegmann, Anna Soter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19923 <…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.FL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.FL/new
[1/1]:
- Learning specifications for reactive synthesis with safety constraints
Kandai Watanabe, Nicholas Renninger, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Morteza Lahijanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05533 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115881279625696255
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
Stakka & K.Tee:
🎵 Synthesis (Remix)
#Stakka #KTee
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pILiMmVA9dVKuwOwNrhOV