spherical harmonic
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special function over the surface of a sphere
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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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