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Let's not get started about white vs colored noise in digital signal processing. Why is white noise white?
by greesil 6y ago
Let's not get started about white vs colored noise in digital signal processing. Why is white noise white?
- fennecfoxen 6y agoSame reason that white light is white: its has a mix of all the light frequencies in about the same proportion, rather than being weighted to one particular color.
- greesil 6y agoAnd yet the sun's spectrum follows the black body radiation curve.
- frazbin 6y agoI dunno, maybe let's get started. I would guess it is called white noise by analogy to analog TV static, which even though it has black pixels in it at any time, appears white to the eye. But interesting question.