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Tetraview


A tetraview is a visualization technique for bivariate complex functions. In the simplest case, the graph of a complex-valued function w=w(z) can be considered as a hypersurface in R^4 with four real coordinates (R[z],I[z],R[w(z)],I[w(z)]). Carrying out a rotation in four dimensions and projecting the first three coordinates into (ordinary) R^3 then allows the changes from (R[z],I[z],R[w(z)]) to (R[z],I[z],I[w(z)]) to (R[w(z)],I[w(z)],R[z]) to (R[w(z)],I[w(z)],I[z]) to be visualized continuously.


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Pólya Plot

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References

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Trott, Michael. "Tetraview." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tetraview.html

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