ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

DTFT

Alright kiddo, have you ever heard of a very long song that has lots of different sounds in it? That's kind of what the Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) is like.

Think of it this way - imagine you have a big bag of marbles of different colors. You can dump them all out on the floor and see all of the different colors at once, right? Well, the DTFT is like taking all of the sounds in a song and spreading them out so we can see all of the different frequencies that make up the sound.

Basically, the DTFT takes a set of samples (like the "marbles" in our bag) of a sound and shows us what that sound would look like if we could see it on a graph. It separates the sound into its different frequencies, kind of like how you can separate your marbles by color.

So, if you were listening to a song and you wanted to know what it would look like if you could see all of the frequencies that make up the sound, you could use the DTFT to visualize it. It's a pretty cool tool, right?