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:
“Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
—William James (1842–1910)