You should be familiar with the use of stereograms to plot poles of crystals and have a good knowledge of atomic structure and be able to index planes with Miller indices. You should also be familiar with mechanisms of slip in single crystals.
It would be helpful to read the following TLPs: Atomic scale structure, Crystallography, Miller indices, The Stereographic Projection, and Slip in Single crystals.
Material in this TLP relates to a package found on the AluMATTER website explaining how stereograms can be used to represent texture: AluMATTER - representing texture
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