Systems of Spherical Harmonics

Spherical Harmonics

5 Spherical Harmonics 7 5.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.2 Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2.1 Harmonic expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2.2 Convolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Kernels of Spherical Harmonics and Spherical Frames

Our concern is with the construction of a frame in L 2 (S) consisting of smooth functions based on kernels of spherical harmonics. The corresponding decomposition and reconstruction algorithms utilize discrete spherical Fourier transforms. Numerical examples connrm the theoretical expectations. x1. Introduction Traditionally, wavelets were tailored to problems on the Euclidean space IR d. Howev...

3 Generalized Spherical Harmonics

Optimal Spherical Harmonics Projection

We introduce the reader to the mathematics behind projection of n-dimensional vectors into a basis on n-dimensional space, where n can be anything upto and including infinity. We show how ideally one wants to project into the duals of a basis if this basis is not orthonormal, and provide the mathematics to formulate this operation in matrix form. The second part of the article discusses spheric...

Importance Sampling Spherical Harmonics

In this paper we present the first practical method for importance sampling functions represented as spherical harmonics (SH). Given a spherical probability density function (PDF) represented as a vector of SH coefficients, our method warps an input point set to match the target PDF using hierarchical sample warping. Our approach is efficient and produces high quality sample distributions. As a...