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Snapshot 1: in the prolate limit (where the spheroid becomes an infinite cylinder), the angular spheroidal functions become more concentrated around the origin (), and less concentrated around the edges ()

Snapshot 2: the reverse holds in the oblate limit , in which the spheroid becomes a flat disk

Snapshot 3: in the oblate limit, both even and odd functions vanish at ; the even functions tend to the same form as the next higher odd function, with a sign change on one half of the interval (compare this picture, for , with Snapshot 2, where )