TIM, ray-tracing program for forbidden optics
Dean Lambert, Alasdair C. Hamilton, George Constable, Harsh Snehanshu,, Sharvil Talati, Johannes Courtial
TL;DR
TIM is a specialized ray-tracing software designed for research on METATOYs, optical components that manipulate light-ray fields in ways forbidden by traditional wave optics, with customizable features and web integration.
Contribution
The paper introduces TIM, a novel ray-tracing program tailored for METATOYs research, including its structure, extensibility, and application examples.
Findings
TIM effectively simulates wave-optically forbidden light-ray fields.
The software is customizable and can be embedded in web pages.
TIM has been successfully used in METATOYs research.
Abstract
TIM (The Interactive METATOY) is a ray-tracing program specifically tailored towards our research in METATOYs, which are optical components that appear to be able to create wave-optically forbidden light-ray fields. For this reason, TIM possesses features not found in other ray-tracing programs. TIM can either be used interactively or by modifying the openly available source code; in both cases, it can easily be run as an applet embedded in a web page. Here we describe the basic structure of TIM's source code and how to extend it, and we give examples of how we have used TIM in our own research.
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