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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by dom0 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:03AM (#15130464)
> The difference is audio is "actually" bandlimited and frequency-based, but images are "actually" spatial.

I.e. audio is sampled along one dimension, while images are sampled along two dimensions. Note that frequency-domain considerations play a crucial role in all optical design, including imaging sensors.

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Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012) by astrange on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:02PM (#15137871)
It's a little more than that. A sine wave originates in the frequency domain but actually sounds like something, but images originating in the frequency domain are just noise and not pictures of anything.
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