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🔇 Engineering Quiet

An interactive 3D noise map showing how a roadside sound barrier, vegetation buffer, and active noise-cancellation array combine to lower decibel levels behind a city street.

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A live 3D noise map of a city street cross-section, showing how a sound barrier, a vegetation buffer, and an active noise-cancellation speaker array combine to pull decibel levels down at a building behind the road.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Traffic noise decays with distance, is diffracted around barrier edges, softened by vegetation, and further reduced in a local zone by phase-inverted sound from an active cancellation array — each layer visible as colour shifts on the ground-plane noise map.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust traffic noise level, barrier height, and receptor distance, then toggle the vegetation buffer and active noise cancellation array to see the read-out at the receptor marker change in real time.

💡 Did You Know?

The WHO recommends keeping average road-traffic exposure below 53dB Lden; a well-designed barrier plus active cancellation can realistically claw back 15–20dB in the "quiet zone" closest to the array.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D noise map showing how a roadside sound barrier, vegetation buffer, and active noise-cancellation array combine to lower decibel levels behind a city street.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install