I'm working on a new one with more colours that should make it easier to see 
the depth.

"Manuel Kasten" <kas### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
>> The picture is a rather abstract representation of a magnetic field, 
>> based on no research whatsoever so any science buffs feel free to tell me 
>> what's wrong with it. The cylinders are randomly placed in space and 
>> oriented based on the average of vectors to the north and south poles, 
>> weighted by the inverse square law (which I'm assuming magnetism obeys, I 
>> really haven't researched it at all).
>
> I first thought "There's something wrong, magnetic field lines don't cross 
> each other" until I realized that this is a 3D image, and the field lines 
> really don't cross. It's the perspective making it look like that.
>
> You should make it somehow more obvious that this is 3D, although I don't 
> have an idea how.
>
> About the scientific part, I don't know any more than you do. It does look 
> right, however.
>
>
> Manuel

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