[SciPy-user] spherical harmonic

[fred]

Hi,

I'm playing with spherical harmonic (special.sph_harm()) and I
don't understand what I get.

>From Wolfram (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html),
Re_Y11.png, Im_Y11.png  & mod_Y11.png seems to be correct

http://fredantispam.free.fr/Re_Y11.png
http://fredantispam.free.fr/Im_Y11.png
http://fredantispam.free.fr/mod_Y11.png

when I use
r =
(sqrt((2*n+1)/4.0/pi)*exp(0.5*(gammaln(n-m+1)-gammaln(n+m+1)))*sin(phi)*exp(1j*m*theta))**2

But when I use special.sph_harm(m,n,theta,phi), I get this

http://fredantispam.free.fr/Re_Y11_2.png
http://fredantispam.free.fr/Im_Y11_2.png
http://fredantispam.free.fr/mod_Y11_2.png

Real & imaginary parts don't seem to be correct.

What I'm doing wrong ?


Cheers,

Here the small code I have used.

from sys import argv
from scipy import pi, cos, sin, exp, sqrt, mgrid, real, imag
from scipy.special import sph_harm, gammaln
from enthought.tvtk.tools import mlab, ivtk

def main():

    m = int(argv[1])
    n = int(argv[2])

    gui = mlab.GUI()
    window = ivtk.IVTKWithCrustAndBrowser(size=(1175,773))
    window.open()
    fig = mlab.Figure(window.scene)

    o = mlab.Outline()
    fig.add(o)

    dphi, dtheta = pi/180, pi/180
    [phi, theta] = mgrid[0:pi+dphi:dphi, 0:2*pi+dtheta:dtheta]
### cf. Wolfram : theta <--> phi
    r = real(sph_harm(m,n,theta,phi))**2
#     r =
real(sqrt((2*n+1)/4.0/pi)*exp(0.5*(gammaln(n-m+1)-gammaln(n+m+1)))*sin(phi)*exp(1j*m*theta))**2
    x = r*cos(theta)*sin(phi)
    y = r*sin(theta)*sin(phi)
    z = r*cos(phi)

    s = mlab.Surf(x, y, z, z)
    fig.add(s)

    window.scene.x_plus_view()
    window.scene.camera.parallel_projection = True
    window.scene.camera.azimuth(-62)
    window.scene.camera.elevation(19.5)

    gui.start_event_loop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

-- 
Fred.