spherical harmonic
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special function over the surface of a sphere
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- special function
- Image
- Spherical Harmonics.png
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Spherical harmonics
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Visual representations of the first few real spherical harmonics. Blue portions represent regions where the function is positive, and yellow portions represent where it is negative. The distance of the surface from the origin indicates the absolute value of
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spherical harmonic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.