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What Is the Fourier Transform?

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1. lovelearning ◴[] No.45135066[source]
Applying FT to images is a great way to see the world very differently, as if through an alien's eyes (or Geordi's visor from ST TNG!). A kind of stimulated out-of-the-box thinking. Dense features like fur or hair manifest as high-frequency components and eventually you start to develop an intuition for their patterns in the magnitude / power spectrums.