"""Plot m=1 and m=9 aliases; write discrete-sampling-frequency-aliasing.png to cwd. Uses only the root pyproject.toml dependencies. Tested with Python 3.14.4, NumPy 2.3.5 and Matplotlib 3.10.7. """ from pathlib import Path import matplotlib matplotlib.use("Agg") import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np def main(): plt.rcParams.update({"font.size": 11, "figure.facecolor": "white", "axes.facecolor": "white", "axes.spines.top": False, "axes.spines.right": False}) time = np.linspace(0, 1, 2401) sample_time = np.arange(8) / 8 blue, orange = "#2266aa", "#ce6a16" fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 1, figsize=(9, 6.6), layout="constrained") fig.suptitle("One cycle and nine cycles: identical eight samples", fontsize=16) for ax, trig, name in zip(axes, (np.cos, np.sin), ("Cosine", "Sine")): slow = trig(2 * np.pi * sample_time) fast = trig(18 * np.pi * sample_time) np.testing.assert_allclose(slow, fast, atol=1e-14) ax.plot(time, trig(2 * np.pi * time), color=blue, lw=2.4, label="m = 1: one cycle per unit time") ax.plot(time, trig(18 * np.pi * time), color=orange, lw=1.5, alpha=0.85, label="m = 9: nine cycles per unit time") ax.scatter(sample_time, slow, facecolors="white", edgecolors=blue, s=105, linewidths=1.9, zorder=4, label="m = 1 samples") ax.scatter(sample_time, fast, color=orange, marker="x", s=55, linewidths=1.9, zorder=5, label="m = 9 samples") ax.axhline(0, color="#999999", lw=0.8, zorder=0) ax.set(title=f"{name}: every orange cross lands on a blue circle", xlim=(-0.025, 1.025), ylim=(-1.45, 1.85), xlabel="Time t (samples at n/8, n = 0,…,7)", ylabel="Value", xticks=np.arange(9) / 8) ax.grid(alpha=0.17) ax.legend(loc="upper right", ncol=2, fontsize=9) fig.savefig(Path("discrete-sampling-frequency-aliasing.png"), dpi=120, facecolor="white", transparent=False) plt.close(fig) if __name__ == "__main__": main()