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Re:Why can’t you design noise in frequency space? by amelius on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:00AM (#29737787)
If you view the IFFT as a random number generator, how do you change the seed of it?

I.e., white noise has a flat spectrum. So if you take a flat spectrum back to noise (using IFFT), what determines the seed of this process?

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Re:Why can’t you design noise in frequency space? by nitrogen on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:35PM (#29743453)
It's the seed of whatever source you use to randomize the phases.
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