[monkeycantype]

I'm wading into an area I'm not expert, not to assert but to ask, I remember having an electro-mechanical object explained to me, I think it was a variant of this: https://www.retrothing.com/2008/05/the-harmonium-a.html

I can roughly recall the mechanism by which it worked, and was told that this was an analog for how the Fourier transformation worked, and I vaguely remember going through one on paper. The spiral of the cochlear seems an analog of how the harmonium works. Does the earlier poster have a point with regard to the cochlear as a physical object performing a Fourier transform (though perhaps not a fast one)?

[woojoo666]

Fourier transform is different from FFT, which is Fast Fourier Transform. FFT is an optimization that involves decomposing a signal into multiple "smaller" signals, recursively performing FFT on those, and then combining the results.

[musicale]

s/FF/F/