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:
“How easily it falls, how easily I let drift
On the surface of morning feathers of self-reproach:
How easily I disperse the scolding of snow.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)