Matlab for the Classic Blackman Window

N = 101; L = 3; No2 = (N-1)/2; n=-No2:No2;
ws = zeros(L,3*N); z = zeros(1,N);
for l=0:L-1
  ws(l+1,:) = [z,cos(l*2*pi*n/N),z];
end
alpha = [0.42,0.5,0.08]; % Classic Blackman
w = alpha * ws;

Figure 3.7 plots the classic Blackman Window and its transform.

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.