Faraday caustics

Stylized Caustics: Progressive Rendering of Animated Caustics

In recent years, much work was devoted to the design of light editing methods such as relighting and light path editing. So far, little work addressed the target-based manipulation and animation of caustics, for instance to a differently-shaped caustic, text or an image. The aim of this work is the animation of caustics by blending towards a given target irradiance distribution. This enables an...

106: Caustics

As early as 1927, legislation in the United States governing the packaging of lyeand acidcontaining products mandated that warning labels be placed on these products. In response to the recognition that caustic exposures were more frequent in children, the Federal Hazardous Substances Act and Poison Prevention Packaging Act were passed in 1970; these acts mandated that all caustics with a conce...

Faraday versus Maxwell Faraday or Maxwell ?

Real-Time Caustics

We present a new algorithm to render caustics. The algorithm discretizes the specular surfaces into sample points. Each of the sample points is treated as a pinhole camera that projects an image of the incoming light onto the diffuse receiver surfaces. Anti-aliasing is performed by considering the local surface curvature at the sample points to filter the projected images. The algorithm can be ...

Caustics in turbulent aerosols

– Networks of caustics can occur in the distribution of particles suspended in a randomly moving gas. These can facilitate coagulation of particles by bringing them into close proximity, even in cases where the trajectories do not coalesce. The long-time morphology of these caustic patterns depends upon the Lyapunov exponents λ1, λ2 of the suspended particles, as well as the rate J at which par...