cng1 wrote:This program seems to be quite amazing. Is it based on the PhD thesis of Paul Dickens? I recently started looking into fiddling with designing my own whistles, then started looking into flute/whistle acoustics and thinking about how to simulate it, then found his thesis, then found WIDesigner.
Sorry, I missed this when you first posted it. WIDesigner has similarities to the model Paul Dickens built. The WIDesigner tonehole model comes from the work of Antoine Lefebvre, and WIDesigner uses a more explicit model for the headjoint and excitation mechanism.
cng1 wrote:I was able to run it under Linux but it won't run on my Mac (Mojave 10.14.6). Any suggestions? I installed the latest version of Java from Oracle. When I try to run WIDesigner, I get the following error message:...
I don't have access to a Mac, so I can't offer much help. WIDesigner 2.5.0 comes with a new release of the JDAF user interface classes; it's worth checking whether you still have a problem with 2.5.0. There's also this issue reported,
https://github.com/edwardkort/WWIDesigner/issues/89. If you're still having a problem, please open an issue on GitHub, and maybe Edward will have some ideas.