I’m a biochemist, and at undergrad, the way we learned about how protein structure is determined via X-ray crystallography was basically “We crystallise the proteins like this, then we shoot some X-rays at it, and obtain a diffraction pattern, which we then do some mathememagic on, and voila! You have a 3d structure of a protein”
It frustrated me that we basically just handwaved the process of how we go from the diffraction pattern to a 3d structure (biochemists don’t really need to understand the nitty gritty of how this works, tbf). It took me quite a few months to go digging deeper in my quest to independently learn how this mathememagic worked — it took so long because although questing in the tomes of chemistry helped, I then had to turn to physics books if I wanted to actually understand stuff.
I see FFT, I upvote.
(Final Fantasy Tactics, not Fast Fourier Transforms)
It’s fast furry transfem for you
Wolverine, trying to find a phonebooth to avoid compromising his secret identity be like: discreet furrier transform
But then again, I see Fast Fourier Transforms, I upvote, too
Fast Fourier Transforms literally put food on my table many times in the past. Final Fantasy has never done that for me. But it might someday.
I fucking love Fourier Fast Transforms.
I’m a biochemist, and at undergrad, the way we learned about how protein structure is determined via X-ray crystallography was basically “We crystallise the proteins like this, then we shoot some X-rays at it, and obtain a diffraction pattern, which we then do some mathememagic on, and voila! You have a 3d structure of a protein”
It frustrated me that we basically just handwaved the process of how we go from the diffraction pattern to a 3d structure (biochemists don’t really need to understand the nitty gritty of how this works, tbf). It took me quite a few months to go digging deeper in my quest to independently learn how this mathememagic worked — it took so long because although questing in the tomes of chemistry helped, I then had to turn to physics books if I wanted to actually understand stuff.
So glad I did though. FFT is very cool.
❤️