TUGboat 42:1 (2021)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: Animating Fourier series decomposition of a character with LuaTeX and MPLIB

Summary: building an animation of a character's outline with Lua(TeX) and MetaPost.

Full text of article: publicly available now.

Author: Maxime Chupin

Publication: TUGboat volume 42, number 1 (2021), pages 67-71

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/42-1/tb130chupin-fourier
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Category: Graphics

Difficulty: Intermediate Plus

Abstract: In this article, we will see how, thanks to MetaPost and MPLIB and LuaTeX, we can build an animation illustrating in a mechanical way the Fourier decomposition of a closed contour.

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