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Here’s Von Neumann’s elephant, a wonderful example of the sparse representation of a complex phenomenon using Fourier sums.

Von Neumann's elephant: a parametric curve of an elephant traced out by a truncated Fourier sum.
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” — attributed to John von Neumann.

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