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Fourier Transform — Live Spectrum

Draw any waveform and watch its frequency spectrum appear — sums of sines decompose everything

Draw on the waveform canvas, or choose a preset
Any periodic signal decomposes into a sum of sine waves (harmonics). The Fourier transform reveals the amplitude and phase of each frequency component. The Gibbs phenomenon: reconstructing a square wave with N harmonics shows ~9% overshoot at discontinuities that persists as N → ∞. The phasor animation shows rotating complex exponentials e2πikt/T being summed.