Clipped Sine

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signal-synthesisperiodic

What It Is

Sine wave hard-clipped at 70% --- flat tops and bottoms create a hybrid of smooth oscillation and constant segments, concentrating the distribution at extremes

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: bounded / light-tailed; strongly periodic; low-complexity (predictable, not noise-like); multifractal; low-dimensional; stationary. The atlas additionally detects Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetime, Multi-Scale Wasserstein:w_max_ratio.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.07
asymmetry0.40
occupancy0.31
short-range corr0.79
long-range memory0.47
spectral colour0.34
periodicity0.96
complexity0.03
time-irreversibility0.58
volatility clustering0.72
multifractality0.87
dimensionality0.11
nonstationarity0.04
What the atlas adds
Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetime+6.4z
reconstructed phase space contains a persistent topological loop (S¹) — a smooth simple limit cycle
Multi-Scale Wasserstein:w_max_ratio+3.0z
scale-coherent dispersion mismatch (max/min Wasserstein across scales)
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
E8 Lattice:std_profile+4.1zbank-miss 2.2σ
Nonstationarity:metric_volatility+3.4zbank-miss 1.0σ
AutoRegressive:ar_coef_1+2.7zbank-miss 1.3σ
Visibility Graph:degree_exponent_gamma-2.5zbank-miss 2.0σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[-1, 1]
unique values8090 / 16384
mean ± std-0.00158 ± 0.828

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Damped Pendulum3.58cross-origin
Triangle Wave4.09
Sine Wave4.30

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Which Geometries Light Up

2-adic2-adic:valuation_spectral_concentrationrank 5/3070.7920
AutoRegressiveAutoRegressive:ar_coef_1rank 4/3072.8283
LaplacianLaplacian:gradient_curvature_anticorrelationrank 303/307-0.0910
Multi-Scale WassersteinMulti-Scale Wasserstein:w_stdrank 2/3070.1629
NonstationarityNonstationarity:metric_volatilityrank 1/3073.4598
Persistent HomologyPersistent Homology:max_h1_lifetimerank 1/3070.9546
Visibility GraphVisibility Graph:degree_r_squaredrank 304/3070.2817
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