Re: [Bug 19561] WaveTable is poorly named

On 17/10/2012 09:16, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:

> I think I'm with Chris Wilson here. I find it a bit counterintuitive to have
> "Wave" in the name at all, since to me, a wave is a time domain thing but the
> WaveTable object holds frequency domain data (it's the OscillatorNode that
> produces the wave, not the WaveTable object).
> 
> More precisely, the data held in the object is the Fourier series of a periodic
> wave, but I guess PeriodicWaveFourierSeries is a bit too wordy to be practical?

What about "HarmonicTable" ?

It is, after all, a table of (relative) harmonic contributions.

Ray

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:52:52 UTC