Surface element may refer to
- Volume form
- Surfel in 3D computer graphics
- Differential (infinitesimal), an infinitesimal portion of a surface
Famous quotes containing the words surface and/or element:
“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Truly, though our element is time,
We are not suited to the long perspectives
Open at each instant of our lives.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)