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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