2.2 Spectral synthesis

Spectral synthesis (also called Fourier transform filtering) is another representative of how fBm surface can be obtained [1].

First step we compute the complex coefficients tex2html_wrap_inline613 of inverse Fourier transformation. In order to generate fBm spectral density function S(f) (c.f. [9]) of these coefficients must be proportional to tex2html_wrap_inline617

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where tex2html_wrap_inline621 controls the fractal dimension of the final object according to

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and H denotes Hurst exponent. Then we calculate the inverse Fourier transformation in two dimensions according to formula

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The function f(x,y) is then fBm with its fractal dimension

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The coefficients of Fourier transformation with lowest indices have the biggest influence to resulting shape of the surface (see in Figure 4) and the higher indices manifest themselves just locally.

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Figure: Surfaces obtained with the spectral synthesis using a) 2, b) 4, c) 8, d) 16 and e) 32 respectively members of Fourier series.



Ivo Marak - marak@sgi.felk.cvut.cz