Came here to ask for the same thing. Considering phase is very important when designing filters, and just looking at the magnitude can overly simplify what hap

Came here to ask for the same thing. Considering phase is very important when designing filters, and just looking at the magnitude can overly simplify what happens. Just look at what happens when you use only the magnitude or only the phase information to reconstruct an image: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/ http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/