Sigma approximation

In mathematics, σ-approximation adjusts a Fourier summation to greatly reduce the Gibbs phenomenon, which would otherwise occur at discontinuities.

Animation of the additive synthesis of a square wave with an increasing number of harmonics by way of the σ-approximation

A σ-approximated summation for a series of period T can be written as follows:

in terms of the normalized sinc function

The term

is the Lanczos σ factor, which is responsible for eliminating most of the Gibbs phenomenon. It does not do so entirely, however, but one can square or even cube the expression to serially attenuate Gibbs phenomenon in the most extreme cases.

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