Tom_Drummond on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k Not incidentally, this is equivalent to expressing the shape in ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqaufa4k (nprofile…fa4k) Not incidentally, this is equivalent to expressing the shape in terms of 0 and first order spherical harmonics which also describe s and p orbitals, while higher order harmonics express f orbital, etc. Spherical harmonics arise as a basis for solutions to the wave equation on a sphere - and can be expressed as homogeneous harmonic polynomials of increasing order evaluated on the unit sphere - behaving like a fourier series (indeed spherical harmonics on S1 are exactly a fourier series).