Depiction of symmetry loss for State I of the radial extinction data set
The cylindrical object in this figure is constructed from the curves of total radial intensity as a function of angle in each frame. The horizontal plane indicates the position of the current frame in the figure. As the animation plays the plane moves upward so that the cross section with the cylinder is the total radial intensity as a function of angle for the corresponding frame. The corresponding frame of original video is shown at left. (See Figure 4 in the Color Plate of the paper.)