Hann/Hanning & Hamming window functions in C#

Not so much output from me lately. The reason is that I’m occupied with an exciting and extremely complex hobby project. My geeksuperpower (or one of them) is that I’m able to keep extremely focused for long periods of time (months). Even when its boring, tough and seems impossible to solve the task I work my self through it. The prerequisite being that its complex and interesting enough. A quality many coders possess, for good and for bad.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking I should share some of my findings. So here goes.

Hann (Hanning) and Hamming window functions which you apply to the wave stream frame before passing it to the FFT. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find it for C#, but with some help of Wikipedia and the good people at StackOverflow I managed to put it together.

// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function#Window_examples public Complex[] Hamming(Complex[] iwv)
{
    int N = iwv.Length;

    // iwv[i].Re = real number (raw wave data) // iwv[i].Im = imaginary number (0 since it hasn't gone through FFT yet) for (int n = 1; n < N; n++)
        iwv[n].Re *= 0.54f - 0.46f * (float)Math.Cos((2 * Math.PI * n) / (N - 1));

    return iwv;
}

public Complex[] Hann(Complex[] iwv)
{
    int N = iwv.Length;

EDIT: See blog comments below on this method.

    for (int n = 1; n < N; n++)
        iwv[n].Re = 0.5f * (float)Math.Cos((2 * Math.PI * n) / (N - 1));

    return iwv;
}

Note: Parts of Hamming code borrowed from this file which is part of a C# project that can do autotuning.

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