In this chapter various ways of plotting spherical functions are explained. We start by defining some example functions.
Smooth Plot
The default pcolor
command generates a colored plot without contours. Then more general command which yields the same result is simply plot
Contour Plot
Filled or non-filled contour plot can be generated by the commands contourf
and contour
Free rotate-able 3D Plot
The command plot3d
yield a three dimensional plot which can be rotated freely using the mouse.
Surface Plot
3D plot where the radius of the sphere is transformed according to the function values
Section Plot
Plot the intersection of the surf plot with a plane defined by a normal vector N
Spectral Plot
plotting the Fourier coefficients
The more specific plot options are covered in the respective classes.