Google has commemorated the 150th birthday of Heinrich Hertz, the physicist for whom the standard unit for the frequency of oscillating waves is named, with one of its “doodle” tributes. Here it is:
Forgive me, but as an audio engineer I have to say that this image is very poorly chosen, and will offend, in several different ways, the eye of anyone who is familiar with real-world sinusoidal waveforms. I’m startled that Google seems not to have known better.
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Yikes! That’s no sine wave!
– M