Tensor Visualization edit page

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Visualization

The default plot for each tensor is its directional magnitude, i.e. for each direction \(x\) we plot the quantity \(Q(x) = T_ijkl x_i x_j x_k x_l\)

setMTEXpref('defaultColorMap',blue2redColorMap);

C = stiffnessTensor.rand

plot(C,'complete','upper')
C = tensor (y↑→x)
  rank: 2 (3 x 3)
 
 *10^-2
  43.6 43.53 20.46
  2.59 42.04 61.93
 54.97 33.03 29.97

set back the default color map.

setMTEXpref('defaultColorMap',WhiteJetColorMap)

There are more specialized visualization possibilities for specific tensors, e.g., for the elasticity tensor. See section Elasticity.