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I was researching a math problem this morning and came across this cool little animated GIF.  This is the best visual explanation I've seen for a Fourier transform and the frequency distribution of the Dirac function.  :wub:

 

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I was researching a math problem this morning and came across this cool little animated GIF.  This is the best visual explanation I've seen for a Fourier transform and the frequency distribution of the Dirac function.  :wub:

 

anim_Fourier_transform.thumb.gif.4c775a1

While I'm not a true math head (one semester away from an MS in Statistics), we used DFT's quite a bit in my Time-Series Analysis course over the summer.

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We got through building SARIMA models, GARCH errors, and some other techniques. I'll attach the paper and presentation my group worked on throughout the semester (I know TS is quite rudimentary for energy forecasting, but it was a TS course). I'm currently taking Multivariate Analysis and working on consulting project using Response Surface Methodology as applied to a mixture experiment.

Group 3 - Forecasting Texas Energy Consumption using Weather Data.pdf

Group3_Presentation3_DBartkowiak.pptx

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Nicely done.  I'd like to see the results for the surface method too.  I think you and I would have a lot of fun at a GTG, but everyone else would be looking at us like we're from Mars or something. 

Consider a section view of a toroid.  At its center place a circle with its bottom tangent coincident with the toroid's center, having diameter equal to the outer ring diameter of the torus.  The area of the circle will overlie part of the torus' cross section, but there's an arc area extending from the toroid center outward to the torus' perimeter, beneath the arc of the circle, which will be uncovered.  My question is, can this uncovered area be modeled as the area lying between a hyperbola and its asymptote?  If you could "denature" the arced area onto a flat axis, would it result in what I'm hoping for?

I've been tossing this around for a couple months and can't convince myself it would represent a hyperbolic arc.  Whaddaya think??

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I'm thinking, "I wish I still had Mathematica on my PC". I'll need to give it a go though, I'm a bit dense (just got out of bed) at the moment though and cannot visualize the setup you're imagining. I might be able to code something up in R if I can get the setup correct.

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