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		tlb on Nov 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise gene... You’re right. While a pure tone can only have higher harmonics when distorted, multiple tones can produce the difference frequency. And noise has every tone.

FreeFull on Nov 17, 2023 [–]

Even when distorting a pure tone, the harmonics will reflect back down once they go past the Nyquist frequency.

galangalalgol on Nov 17, 2023 | [–]

And what happensnif you apply a high pass filter to white noise? That would have been my naive approach.

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