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English: We illustrate two different ways to generate Bartlett window functions for spectral analysis applications. MATLAB calls them "symmetric" and "periodic". The latter is also called "DFT Even" in the classic Frederic Harris paper.
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This graphic was created by the following Octave script:

pkg load signal
graphics_toolkit gnuplot
clear all; close all; clc

 M=5600;        % big number, divisible by 7 and 8
% Generate M+1 samples of a Triangle window
 window = triang(M+1);
 N=8;           % actual window size, in "hops"

% Sample the window.
% Scale the abscissa. 0:M samples --> 0:7 "hops", and take 8 symmetrical hops, from 0 to 7
 sam_per_hop_7 = M/7;
 symmetric = window(1+(0:7)*sam_per_hop_7);

% Scale the abscissa. 0:M samples --> 0:8 "hops", and take 8 asymmetrical hops, from 0 to 7
 sam_per_hop_8 = M/8;
 periodic = window(1+(0:7)*sam_per_hop_8);

% Compare equivalent noise bandwidths (info only)
ENBW_symmetric = N*sum(symmetric.^2)/sum(symmetric)^2
ENBW_periodic  = N*sum(periodic.^2) /sum(periodic)^2
 
hfig = figure
plot(0:7, symmetric, 'color', 'red', '.')   % plot the symmetric coefficients
hold on                                     % same axes for next 3 plots
 
plot(0:7, periodic,  'color', 'blue', '.')  % plot the periodic  coefficients

% Connect the dots
hops = (0:M)/sam_per_hop_8;
plot(hops, window, 'color', 'blue')            % periodic

hops = (0:M)/sam_per_hop_7;
plot(hops, window, 'color', 'red')             % symmetric
 
xlim([0 8])
set(gca,'FontSize',14)
set(gca, "yaxislocation", "origin")
set(gca, 'xgrid', 'on');
set(gca, 'ygrid', 'on');
set(gca, 'ytick', [0:.25:1]);
set(gca, 'xtick', [0:8]);
text(3.3, 0.27, 'Matlab "symmetric" \rightarrow', 'color', 'red', 'FontSize',12)

str = {'\leftarrow Matlab "periodic"','     ("DFT-even")'};
text(5.2, 0.74, str, 'color', 'blue', 'FontSize',12)

title('Two 8-point Bartlett window functions','FontSize', 14);
xlabel('\leftarrow  n  \rightarrow')

% Or use the export function on the GNUPlot figure toolbar.
print(hfig,"-dsvg", "-S574,390","-color", 'C:\Users\BobK\8-point windows.svg')
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