Just posted this reply on Reddit because it saddens me to think that someone might not understand the beauty of the Fourier transform:

old.reddit.com/r/golang/commen

Another way I like to think of it: A lens does it in 2D, converting an incoming light beam into an image, or an image into a light beam. Plane wave <-> delta function.

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