Spherical Hermite Maps · /viz/sh/

A spherical function, no mesh.

Drag to rotate, pick a preset, or scrub individual coefficients. The shader sphere-traces an implicit surface and reconstructs the radial field with 4 texture fetches and bicubic Hermite — normals come from the same taps.

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Preset
Order lmax = 8

45 symmetric (even-l) coefficients · Descoteaux real basis

Coefficients