beamshapes : a Python package to generate directivity patterns for various sound sources

Abstract

beamshapes is an open-source Python package that implements various directivity patternsfor sound sources. While there is an abundance of published directivity patterns in the literature- their computational implementations often remain as in-house scripts in proprietarylanguages. beamshapes overcomes this gap, and provides acousticians and bioacousticianseasily accessible implementations of sound source directivities.