Plot HEALPix pixel boundaries

healpy
Published

October 6, 2021

Some time ago I created a Jupyter Notebook based on plotly to create a 3D visualization of the boundaries of HEALPix pixels on the sphere.

The notebook is available on Gist at https://gist.github.com/zonca/b3045651cbc90fe699d2e56df490b005.

See below the outputs ranging from Nside 1 to 8:

Nside 1

Nside 2

Nside 4

Nside 8