A comparison of symmetry loss across data sets.
The curves of total radial intensity as a function of angle for five radial extinction data sets (States A, C, E, G, and I) are combined to form a cylindrical iconization. State A corresponds to the bottom of the cylinder and state I corresponds to the top of the cylinder. The movie frames are aligned temporally so that frame 1 corresponds to a local maximum of front size for each movie. An animation of this as the frame number moves forward reveals relative differences in size, phase and symmetry. The corresponding frame of original video for State I is shown at left. (See Figure 6 of the paper.)