The phrase “fringe visibility map” here refers to high-resolution images of uniform-thickness single crystal foils showing locally hemispheric deformation (i.e. bent into the shape of a watchglass), and to various mathematical analogs thereof. As the availability of “diffraction information” in direct-space form increases, for example with the availability of HREM and z-contrast lattice images, fringe visibility maps may serve as the direct space analog to Kikuchi maps, i.e. to diffraction pattern maps of Kikuchi line pairs as a function of specimen orientation, and their various cartoonifications.

Figures 1 to 3 are schematic Mathematica-generated fringe visibility maps for face-centered, body-centered, and diamond face-centered cubic lattices, respectively. Here we have turned the “locally hemispheric” concept around and drawn fringes visible when one is viewing a spherical particle of the appropriate thickness, along varying beam directions (rather than lattice orientations) parallel to the local radius vector on that sphere.