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. It sits beside Sine Wave in the atlas (standard-bank rank 20) — a neighbor conventional features miss.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.07
asymmetry0.45
occupancy0.34
short-range corr0.82
long-range memory0.59
spectral colour0.21
periodicity0.93
complexity0.03
time-irreversibility0.44
volatility clustering0.79
multifractality0.90
dimensionality0.13
nonstationarity0.11
What the atlas adds
Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetime+6.5z
reconstructed phase space contains a persistent topological loop (S¹) — a smooth simple limit cycle
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
E8 Lattice:std_profile+4.1zbank-miss 2.6σ
Nonstationarity:metric_volatility+3.4zbank-miss 1.5σ
AutoRegressive:ar_coef_2-3.2zbank-miss 1.9σ
AutoRegressive:ar_coef_1+2.7zbank-miss 1.5σ
Visibility Graph:degree_exponent_gamma-2.5zbank-miss 1.4σ

Composition

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

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Damped Pendulum3.57cross-origin
Triangle Wave4.08
Sine Wave4.29

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Which Geometries Light Up

2-adic › 2-adic:valuation_spectral_concentrationrank 5/3060.7920
AutoRegressive › AutoRegressive:ar_coef_1rank 4/3062.8283
Laplacian › Laplacian:gradient_curvature_anticorrelationrank 302/306-0.0910
Multi-Scale Wasserstein › Multi-Scale Wasserstein:w_stdrank 2/3060.1629
Nonstationarity › Nonstationarity:metric_volatilityrank 1/3063.4598
Persistent Homology › Persistent Homology:max_h1_lifetimerank 1/3060.9546
Visibility Graph › Visibility Graph:degree_r_squaredrank 303/3060.2817
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