Taming Light Reflection to Create Images
November 13, 2012
Researchers at EPFL’s Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory (LGG) found a way to control “caustics”, the patterns that appear when light hits a water surface or any transparent material. Thanks to an elaborate algorithm, they can shape a transparent object so that it reflects an organized and coherent image.
credit: EPFL
Topics:
Technology Internet, 3D computer graphics, Geometrical optics, Optics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Transparency and translucency, Photon mapping, Caustic, Reflection, Computer graphics
