Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Federico Miyara
Claus, For me the plurality is not so important - but let's say it's the wording used in all our educational books (in English) ... just dig into any Signal Analysis book, etc., and what we're trying to name here is exactly that, then it would be bad for Scilab to give it a different name.

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Federico Miyara
There are several software packages, not only Matlab, that call this concept "periodic", for instance Octave, Scipy (from Python), DADiSP. Regarding the last one, I've found an interesting reference: https://www.dadisp.com/webhelp/mergedProjects/refman2/FncrefFK/FLATTOP.htm Here, along with

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Claus Futtrup
Hi Federico Thank you for being open to finding the right word. I think other members of our small group should also be open. For me the plurality is not so important - but let's say it's the wording used in all our educational books (in English) ... just dig into any Signal Analysis book,

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Federico Miyara
Samuel: As a general concept, you are right ... but with nuances. The problem is deciding when something is really wrong and when it is just a question of opinion or personal preference. It is wrong to say the Earth is flat, no matter how many people say it. But is it right or wrong to call

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Claus Futtrup
Dear friends I believe the initial question is related to giving more options to the window functions, such that it can continue how it is today (aka 'symmetric') but also offer alternatives. If these additional options makes sense, and can default such that they are not required (existing

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-12 Thread Dang Ngoc Chan, Christophe
Hello, > De : Federico Miyara > Envoyé : dimanche 11 avril 2021 02:08 > > Like it or not, I guess these keywords come from Matlab, and as Matlab > still seems to dominate the market, many people, including those > willing to quit Matlab (as I did several years ago), are quite used to > those

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-10 Thread Federico Miyara
Samuel, Like it or not, I guess these keywords come from Matlab, and as Matlab still seems to dominate the market, many people, including those willing to quit Matlab (as I did several years ago), are quite used to those keywords. Other software such as Octave and scipy.signal (Python)

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-04-09 Thread Samuel Gougeon
Dear Federico, Thank you for the proposal. I am afraid that the "symmetric" and "periodic" flag names are not intuitive to me. Indeed, the generated window is /always/ both periodic and symmetric. It is anyway "algorithmically seen" as periodic (from a spectral point of view), since it is

Re: [Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-03-07 Thread Federico Miyara
Dear all, Just in case somebody finds this useful, I'm attaching a proposal of a modified version of the function window() which includes three new window functions: Blackman, Blackman-Harris and one out of many different flat-top windows. It also allows a new argument, opt, which can be either

[Scilab-users] Why window() provides only symmetric weighting?

2021-02-10 Thread Federico Miyara
Dear All, I wonder why windowing functions such as Hann, Hamming, etc., provided by window(), are only symmetric. When used for spectral analysis by subsequent use of fft(), the periodic weighting is better than the symmetric one. The symmetric window is mainly used in the design of FIR