PINK_NOISE
Samples of a Pink Noise Signal
PINK_NOISE
is a Python library which
can generate random values taken from an approximate pink noise signal
obeying a 1/f power law.
Licensing:
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page
are distributed under
the GNU LGPL license.
Languages:
PINK_NOISE is available in
a C version and
a C++ version and
a FORTRAN90 version and
a MATLAB version and
a Python version.
Related Data and Programs:
COLORED_NOISE,
a Python library which
generates samples of noise obeying a 1/f^alpha power law.
NORMAL,
a Python library which
computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom normally distributed values.
UNIFORM,
a Python library which
computes elements of a uniform pseudorandom sequence.
Reference:
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Martin Gardner,
White and brown music, fractal curves and one-over-f fluctuations,
Scientific American,
Volume 238, Number 4, April 1978, pages 16-32.
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Jeremy Kasdin,
Discrete Simulation of Colored Noise and Stochastic Processes
and 1/f^a Power Law Noise Generation,
Proceedings of the IEEE,
Volume 83, Number 5, 1995, pages 802-827.
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Edoardo Milotti,
1/f noise: a pedagogical review,
arXiv:physics/0204033.
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Sophocles Orfanidis,
Introduction to Signal Processing,
Prentice-Hall, 1995,
ISBN: 0-13-209172-0,
LC: TK5102.5.O246.
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William Press,
Flicker Noises in Astronomy and Elsewhere,
Comments on Astrophysics,
Volume 7, Number 4, 1978, pages 103-119.
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Miroslav Stoyanov, Max Gunzburger, John Burkardt,
Pink Noise, 1/f^alpha Noise, and Their Effect on Solutions
of Differential Equations,
International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification,
Volume 1, Number 3, pages 257-278, 2011.
Source Code:
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the Python source codes.
Last revised on 19 August 2017.