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Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by jackschaedler on Monday March 02, 2015 @12:49PM (#9133189)
Thanks! Let me know if there are other topics you'd like covered, or areas that need more explanation.
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by calebreach on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:56PM (#9133569)
This is great! I'd love to see sections on convolution, the Dirac delta function, and the continuous (possibly multi-dimensional) Fourier transform.
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by sbuccini on Monday March 02, 2015 @03:05PM (#9133993)
Seconded on convolution and the Dirac delta.
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by shorodei on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:22PM (#9133370)
Another topic that has confounded me as much as FFTs are Quaternions.
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by malingo on Monday March 02, 2015 @04:38PM (#9134509)
I found this example by Steven Wittens to be remarkably well done: http://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory-pt2/

See the section "Blowing up the Death Star" and note that there are 100 parts total.

"So that's quaternions, the magical rotation vectors."

Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by cbd1984 on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:40PM (#9133481)
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Monday March 02, 2015 @02:01PM (#9133604)
That's not quite the same, but worth reading up on anyway.
Re:Show HN: Interactive Essay on Signals, Sampling and the F... by cbd1984 on Monday March 02, 2015 @08:15PM (#9135542)
The quaternions are a subalgebra of geometric algebra. It's not quite the same in that it's strictly more general and, therefore, more broadly applicable.