File:Convolution of box signal with itself.gif

Summary

Description An animation displaying the process and result of convolving a box 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 but includes the source code and shows the result of the convolution in the same graph as the input functions.
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Author Brian Amberg
 
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Matlab Code used to create this animation

%% Create folding of two rectangular impulses
X=-2.8:0.001:2.8;
F1=zeros(size(X)); F1(abs(X)<=0.5) = 1;
F2=zeros(size(X)); F2(abs(X)<=0.5) = 1;
clf

[tmp zero_offset] = min(abs(X));
!rm -f /tmp/conv_box_box*.png
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, 20)==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([-2 2 0 1.1])
    xlabel('t');
    grid on
    legend('Area under f(t)g(t)', 'f(t)', 'g(t)', '(f*g)(t)');
    axis equal
    drawnow
    set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto')
    print('-dpng', '-r72', '-painters', sprintf('/tmp/conv_box_box_%06d.png', offset_i));
  end
end

Image Magicks convert commandline to create the gif:

convert -delay 5 -loop 0 conv_box_box_*.png conv_box_box.gif

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