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Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers


blished on Apr 12 2026 On your computer graphics journey, you will eventually run into some paper or code mentioning spherical harmonic functions. They are indeed a very useful tool: with just a few coefficients, they allow us to approximate a given function defined on a sphere.

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