... Take a particularly simple signal: a cosine wave. ... Now, we are going to stretch and shrink the wavelet along the time axis (we assume the data is in the time domain), and at each time compare the shape of the signal to that of the wavelet. ... Figure 3: The wavelet (dotted line) is translated rela tive to the signal (solid line). ... Figure 4: The dashed line plots the `match' between the wavelets (dotted line) and the signal (solid line) as a function of time. ...