User:Constant314/Plane wave visual depiction

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The images in this section are artistic depictions of the relationships between fields in a plane wave. Directions transverse to the direction of propagation are compressed to depict filed geometry many wavelengths away from the central portion of the propagating wavefront.

In an ideal plane wave, the wavefronts are parallel to infinity and the flux lines never close (or could be considered closed at infinity). In a practice plane wave, the lines of flux close.