from mathutils import fft, get_modulus import random def plot_spectrum(signal, sampling_frequency, plots = None): number_of_samples = len(signal) time_vector = [x / sampling_frequency for x in frange(0, number_of_samples, 1)] tranform = fft(signal) two_side_spectrum = [x / number_of_samples for x in get_modulus(tranform)] spectrum = [two_side_spectrum[0],] + [x * 2 for x in two_side_spectrum[1:len(two_side_spectrum)/2 + 1] ] number_of_samples = len(tranform) # Signal may have been padded to next power of two freq_vector = [x * sampling_frequency / float(number_of_samples) for x in frange(0, len(spectrum) , 1)] if plots is None: plots = plot([signal,spectrum], ["signal", "spectrum"],[time_vector, freq_vector], context = "Spectrum") else: plots[0].getSeries(0).setData(time_vector,signal) plots[1].getSeries(0).setData(freq_vector,spectrum) return plots def get_sample(samples, sampling_freq): return map(lambda t:math.sin(100*2*math.pi*t/sampling_freq) + random.random(), frange(0,samples,1)) plots = None while(True): signal = get_sample(1024, 1024.0) plots = plot_spectrum(signal,sampling_freq, plots) time.sleep(0.1)