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The NDP sounding cycle: a payload-free frame probes the channel, the receiver computes and compresses a CSI estimate, and feeds it back to the transmitter for beam steering.

AI-generated illustration for Channel State Information, made with fal.ai (fal-ai/flux-2-pro).

Prompt: A technical diagram showing the exchange between a Wi-Fi transmitter with multiple antennas and a receiver, with a payload-free sounding frame travelling from transmitter to receiver, the receiver processing the signal into a compressed channel matrix, and a beamforming feedback frame returning from the receiver back to the transmitter, all occurring within a room where the multipath signals bounce off walls and surfaces. Style: Detailed digital illustration blending technical schematic linework with painterly atmospheric rendering, as if a scientific textbook were reimagined by a noir graphic novelist. Colour palette of deep midnight blue, charcoal black, and slate grey as foundations, accented with electric teal, bioluminescent green, and cold amber. Lighting is dramatic and directional, suggesting surveillance or laboratory environments — pools of cold light against deep shadow, with occasional glowing circuit-trace highlights. Compositions favour tight framing with layered depth: foreground technical detail dissolving into abstracted background geometry. Detail level is high but purposeful, prioritising legible structure over decorative complexity. Mood is clinical yet ominous, precise yet unsettling. No text, lettering, captions, logos, watermarks or borders unless it is a technical drawing.