POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Fourier-Isosurfaces : Re: Fourier-Isosurfaces Server Time
16 Aug 2024 14:25:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fourier-Isosurfaces  
From: Warp
Date: 27 Feb 2002 13:03:40
Message: <3c7d1f7c@news.povray.org>
Thies Heidecke <h3i### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
> For those who don't know what Fourier-Series are, short explanation:
> The theory behind Fourier-Series is that every (periodic) function can
> be represented through addition of sine/cosine-waves with variable
> amplitude and a frequency that is an integer multiple of a certain
> base frequency.

  I think that the Fourier series definition is more general than that.
IIRC it was something like: Every function can be represented with the
addition of any two orthogonal functions (sin and cos are just one example
of an orthogonal function pair).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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