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Concept

Caustic (optics)

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Architectural Caustics — Controlling Light with Geometry

Mark Pauly

Caustics are captivating light patterns created by materials bundling or diverting light by refraction or reflection. We know caustics as random side effects, appearing, for example, at the bottom of a swimming pool. In this paper we show that it is possib ...

Springer2012

Caustic Art

Mark Pauly

The computation of caustics created by reflection or refraction of light is a well-studied problem in computer graphics. This paper investigates the inverse problem: Given a greyscale intensity image, find the shape of a surface that will cast a caustic th ...

2012

Ray tracing study for non-imaging daylight collectors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Friedrich Linhart

This paper presents a novel method to study how well non-imaging daylight collectors pipe diffuse daylight into long horizontal funnels for illuminating deep buildings. Forward ray tracing is used to derive luminous intensity distributions curves (LIDC) of ...

2010

Splines and wavelets for image warping and projection

Stefan Horbelt

This thesis investigates advanced signal processing concepts and their application to geometric processing and transformations of images and volumes. In the first part, we discuss the class of transformations that project volume data onto a plane using par ...

EPFL2001