Talk:Spherical harmonics

This article would definitely benefit from some images. Fredrik Johansson 11:04, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

• Although I am still working on this article (one of the things I want to do is type in explicit expressions), I had not planned any illustrations. I teak my lead from Whittaker and Watson: no diagrams :-) (joke). Do you have any suggestions? In the past I made some 3D-like plots of s, p, d, etc. orbitals (by means of Maple). They looked nice but, in my view, you don't learn anything from it.--Paul Wormer 11:49, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

Illustrations?

As far as I'm concerned this article is finished. If somebody wants to make it more accessible by adding some graphs, please do so. --Paul Wormer 07:33, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

I'm afraid I don't have any graphs to add myself. Those shown here are nice. There's also this image on Wikimedia Commons, which is free. Fredrik Johansson 08:38, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

I uploaded Spher_harm_10.svg‎ and tried to show it at the bottom of the article, but no luck! Can somebody tell me what I do wrong?--Paul Wormer 09:46, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

I got it to work by copying the file name from the image description page, but I don't understand why that helped; the lines look identical to me. The image could use some cropping, by the way. Fredrik Johansson 10:59, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

You mean that you removed the underscores in the file name? Can I crop here, or do I have to do that at the PostScript level? What does thumb do? Thank you for your help.--Paul Wormer 11:06, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

Underscores or no underscores shouldn't matter; it works if I insert underscores in the current version. The MediaWiki software doesn't support cropping as far as I know, so you'll have to crop the file yourself and reupload it. "Thumb" places a frame around the image that makes the caption visible (it also resizes the image to 180px unless you specify a custom size). Fredrik Johansson 11:18, 2 September 2007 (CDT)

Opening paragraph and definition

While I like the definition on the subpage very much, I think that the first paragraph of the article itself is to theoretical. How about incorporating the Spherical harmonics/Definition into the first few sentences of the article? -- Alexander Wiebel 23:53, 30 January 2009 (UTC)