.. _example_spherical_harmonics: Spherical harmonics example -------------------------------------------------------------------- Plot spherical harmonics on the surface of the sphere, as well as a 3D polar plot. This example requires scipy. In this example we use the mlab's mesh function: :func:`mayavi.mlab.mesh`. For plotting surfaces this is a very versatile function. The surfaces can be defined as functions of a 2D grid. For each spherical harmonic, we plot its value on the surface of a sphere, and then in polar. The polar plot is simply obtained by varying the radius of the previous sphere. .. image:: ../generated_images/example_spherical_harmonics.jpg :align: center **Python source code:** :download:`spherical_harmonics.py` .. literalinclude:: spherical_harmonics.py :lines: 16-