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frozenport
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Understanding The Fourier Transform
The imaginary part of the transform.
nphrk
on Dec 2, 2012
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The article uses the magnitude of the coefficients, which is computed using both the real and the imaginary part.
dbaupp
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The phase portion isn't actually just the imaginary part, it's just the piece of information lost when one goes from real+imag -> magnitude, i.e. it's the argument of the complex number.
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