Why are the 'Fixed Stars' so FIXED?

On Jun 18, 5:39 pm, HW@....(Henri Wilson) wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:18:16 -0700, Jerry
wrote:

On Jun 17, 9:15 pm, HW@....(Henri Wilson) wrote:

Because anything periodic will have a definite number of
cycles in a unit of time.
The time unit used will have to be defined to suit the
periodicity.

You are therefore claiming that Fourier Analysis is worthless
for the analysis of practically any form of real data, which
are not generated as the sum of pure sine and cosine series.

Try again.

It is possible to express any curve or section of a curve in
terms of sines and cosines, including phase relationships.....
but frankly I don't see the point if the curve is not periodic.

Then you lack knowledge and imagination. Just for example:

Deconvolution is best performed in the frequency domain, where
the complex algorithms for removing the effects of blurring due
to a point spread function turn into simple matrix multiplication.
The PSF in the spatial domain becomes an optical transfer
function in the frequency domain, etc.
http://quarktet.com/GallerySignature.html

Since photographs are not periodic, there is a problem with edge
effects, but methods are available for dealing with them.

....and YES, there IS a section of my medical imagery textbook
that touches on the subject. Even -medical students- learn more
about this than you.

Jerry

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