One simulated volume, six physical fields. Turn the box and compare the structures they reveal.
What am I seeing?
Colors encode scalar values on fixed logarithmic scales. Opacity controls visibility; it is not physical absorption. Multiple layers mix colors illustratively and cannot establish a quantitative correlation. The cut hides gas with x1 above the selected position without changing the retained field values; it is a spatial cutaway, not time evolution.
Hα is intrinsic volume emissivity, not an observed image. The fiducial schure_fi coefficient is clamped below 10⁴ K. No extinction, radiative transfer or telescope response is applied.
Density means total particle number density. Plasma β = gas pressure / magnetic pressure; β = 1 is equipartition. Temperature and β are volume-weighted means in the coarse web cells.
Ohmic and viscous heating are saved solver dissipation rates per unit volume, in erg cm⁻³ s⁻¹. Both use the same color and opacity scale. They exclude the external thermostat and reversible compressive work; zero rates are transparent.
Density and β palettes use Fabio Crameri's Scientific colour maps (lipari and reversed managua).
Data provenance · Color and opacity scales