Surface element
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Surface element may refer to
  • Volume form
    Volume form
    In mathematics, a volume form on a differentiable manifold is a nowhere-vanishing differential form of top degree. Thus on a manifold M of dimension n, a volume form is an n-form, a section of the line bundle Ωn = Λn, that is nowhere equal to zero. A manifold has a volume...

  • Surfel
    Surfel
    Surfel is an abbreviation of "surface element". In 3D computer graphics, the use of surfels is an alternative to polygonal modeling. An object is represented by a dense set of points or viewer-facing discs holding lighting information. Surfels are well suited to modeling dynamic geometry, because...

     in 3D computer graphics
  • Differential (infinitesimal), an infinitesimal portion of a surface
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