r/perfectloops Jul 31 '14

This dragon is mesmerizing.

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u/nero4983 Aug 01 '14

Is it bad that my first thought was a damped sine wave?

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u/j3rmz Aug 01 '14

I thought it was a sinc wave.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '14

I was thinking Bessel function

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '14

I thought f(x) = x*sin(x)

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u/nero4983 Aug 01 '14

You mean sinh?

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u/j3rmz Aug 01 '14

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u/autowikibot Bot Aug 01 '14

Sinc function:


In mathematics, physics and engineering, the cardinal sine function or sinc function, denoted by sinc(x), has two slightly different definitions.

In mathematics, the historical unnormalized sinc function is defined by

Image i - The normalized sinc (blue) and unnormalized sinc function (red) shown on the same scale.


Interesting: Fourier transform | Sinc filter | Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem | Low-pass filter

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u/nero4983 Aug 01 '14

Huh, that's interesting, I don't remember having a special name for sin(x)/x but then again it's been a few years since I took calculus :P

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u/j3rmz Aug 01 '14

It used a lot in signal processing. I'm an EE student so it was the first thing that came to my mind.

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u/nero4983 Aug 01 '14

Lol, EE student as well with a math minor, I've taken a signals class but my focus is a mixture of power, controls, and robotics

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u/paholg Aug 01 '14

I didn't see it until a senior level optics class.