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But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.

3Blue1Brown · 16 recommenders · 15 months

3Blue1Brown's animated visual introduction to the Fourier Transform, showing how a signal breaks into frequency components.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN's default recommendation for understanding the Fourier transform intuitively; many say it was the explanation that made it click.

16 recommenders7 strong recommendations2018–2025
Information theory & signal processingRecreational & visual mathPure mathematics#fourier transform#3blue1brown#signal processing#visual math#frequencies

“this was the first thing that ever really made sense to me”

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