File:Convolution of spiky function with box.gif

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An animation displaying the process and result of convolving a spiky signal with itself. For each position in the resulting hat function the input functions and the multiplied input functions are shown, and the area which is integrated is marked. This work mimicks File:Convolucion de entrada con respuesta al impulso.gif but includes the source code and shows the result of the convolution in the same graph as the input functions.

The function used is $exp(-t)$ for $t>0$ and $0$ otherwise.
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Author Brian Amberg
 
This diagram was created with MATLAB.


Matlab Code used to create the image

%% Create folding of two rectangular impulses with spiky function
X=-2.3:0.0005:3.8;
F1=exp(-X);
F1(X<=0) = 0;
F2=zeros(size(X)); F2(abs(X)<=0.5) = 1;
clf

[tmp zero_offset] = min(abs(X));

!rm -f /tmp/conv_box_spike*
integral=nan(size(X));
for offset_i=1:numel(X)
  offset=X(offset_i);
  shift=offset_i-zero_offset;
  F2_shifted = circshift(F2, [1 shift]);
  F2_shifted(1:min(shift, numel(X))) = 0;
  F2_shifted(end+shift:end) = 0;
  product = F2_shifted.*F1;
  integral(offset_i) = sum(product)/numel(X)*(X(end)-X(1));
  if (mod(offset_i, 30)==0)
    area(X, product, 'facecolor', 'yellow');
    hold on
    plot(X, F1, 'b', X, F2_shifted, 'r', X, integral, 'k', [offset offset], [0 2], 'k:')
    hold off
    axis([-1.5 3 0 1.1])
    xlabel('t');
    legend('Area under f(t)g(t)', 'f(t)', 'g(t)', '(f*g)(t)');
    grid on
    drawnow
    
    set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto')
    print('-dpng', '-r72', '-painters', sprintf('/tmp/conv_box_spike_%06d.png', offset_i));
    
  end
end

And the conversion was done with Image Magicks convert using convert -delay 5 -loop 0 conv_box_spike_*.png conv_box_spike.gif

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current18:41, 7 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 18:41, 7 July 2010475 × 144 (106 KB)RubybrianCropped the image and optimized the output for size using <code> convert -layers Optimize -delay 5 -loop 0 conv_box_spike_*.png conv_box_spike.gif </code>
18:22, 7 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 18:22, 7 July 2010587 × 159 (1.03 MB)Rubybrian== Summary == {{Information |Description=An animation displaying the process and result of convolving a spiky signal with itself. For each position in the resulting hat function the input functions and the multiplied input functions are shown, and the are

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