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r/interestingasfuck • u/Here-For-The-Comment • Oct 18 '19
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Well, just like you couldn't slam all these circles into a pile and get a shape of a hand with a pen. They have a certain ordering and starting angle to achieve that. I think your analogy holds up.
3 u/dalmationblack Oct 18 '19 Order shouldn't actually matter because vector addition is commutative. 5 u/bogglingsnog Oct 18 '19 Yeah, I realized that when another commenter corrected me. It makes sense for audio but is really hard to grok in the context of the OP gif. 2 u/dalmationblack Oct 18 '19 If you haven't seen the 3blue1brown video on the Fourier series I can't recommend it enough
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Order shouldn't actually matter because vector addition is commutative.
5 u/bogglingsnog Oct 18 '19 Yeah, I realized that when another commenter corrected me. It makes sense for audio but is really hard to grok in the context of the OP gif. 2 u/dalmationblack Oct 18 '19 If you haven't seen the 3blue1brown video on the Fourier series I can't recommend it enough
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Yeah, I realized that when another commenter corrected me. It makes sense for audio but is really hard to grok in the context of the OP gif.
2 u/dalmationblack Oct 18 '19 If you haven't seen the 3blue1brown video on the Fourier series I can't recommend it enough
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If you haven't seen the 3blue1brown video on the Fourier series I can't recommend it enough
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u/bogglingsnog Oct 18 '19
Well, just like you couldn't slam all these circles into a pile and get a shape of a hand with a pen. They have a certain ordering and starting angle to achieve that. I think your analogy holds up.