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Chris@42:An r2r kind of FFTW_R2HC (r2hc) corresponds to an r2c DFT
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Chris@42: (see One-Dimensional DFTs of Real Data) but with “halfcomplex”
Chris@42: format output, and may sometimes be faster and/or more convenient than
Chris@42: the latter.
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Chris@42: The inverse hc2r transform is of kind FFTW_HC2R.
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Chris@42: This consists of the non-redundant half of the complex output for a 1d
Chris@42: real-input DFT of size n, stored as a sequence of n real
Chris@42: numbers (double) in the format:
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Chris@42: r0, r1, r2, ..., rn/2, i(n+1)/2-1, ..., i2, i1 Chris@42:
Chris@42:Here,
Chris@42: rkis the real part of the kth output, and
Chris@42: ikis the imaginary part. (Division by 2 is rounded down.) For a
Chris@42: halfcomplex array hc[n], the kth component thus has its
Chris@42: real part in hc[k] and its imaginary part in hc[n-k], with
Chris@42: the exception of k == 0 or n/2 (the latter
Chris@42: only if n is even)—in these two cases, the imaginary part is
Chris@42: zero due to symmetries of the real-input DFT, and is not stored.
Chris@42: Thus, the r2hc transform of n real values is a halfcomplex array of
Chris@42: length n, and vice versa for hc2r.
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Aside from the differing format, the output of
Chris@42: FFTW_R2HC/FFTW_HC2R is otherwise exactly the same as for
Chris@42: the corresponding 1d r2c/c2r transform
Chris@42: (i.e. FFTW_FORWARD/FFTW_BACKWARD transforms, respectively).
Chris@42: Recall that these transforms are unnormalized, so r2hc followed by hc2r
Chris@42: will result in the original data multiplied by n. Furthermore,
Chris@42: like the c2r transform, an out-of-place hc2r transform will
Chris@42: destroy its input array.
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Although these halfcomplex transforms can be used with the
Chris@42: multi-dimensional r2r interface, the interpretation of such a separable
Chris@42: product of transforms along each dimension is problematic. For example,
Chris@42: consider a two-dimensional n0 by n1, r2hc by r2hc
Chris@42: transform planned by fftw_plan_r2r_2d(n0, n1, in, out, FFTW_R2HC,
Chris@42: FFTW_R2HC, FFTW_MEASURE). Conceptually, FFTW first transforms the rows
Chris@42: (of size n1) to produce halfcomplex rows, and then transforms the
Chris@42: columns (of size n0). Half of these column transforms, however,
Chris@42: are of imaginary parts, and should therefore be multiplied by i
Chris@42: and combined with the r2hc transforms of the real columns to produce the
Chris@42: 2d DFT amplitudes; FFTW’s r2r transform does not perform this
Chris@42: combination for you. Thus, if a multi-dimensional real-input/output DFT
Chris@42: is required, we recommend using the ordinary r2c/c2r
Chris@42: interface (see Multi-Dimensional DFTs of Real Data).
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