This diagram shows changes in the areal proportions of grains with a specific crystallographic orientation (vertical axis) as a function of shear strain (horizontral axis). The crystallographic orientations of the grains are colour coded (pole diagram at lower right hand corner).

Grains with orientations corresponding to blue and violet interference colours are eliminated, whereas areal proportion of  yellow grains increases.

The increase in volume proportion of yellow grains is greatest during the second transient stage, whereas at steady state the areal proportion of yellow and magenta grains remains constant with strain.