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 Caustic Calculations
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Organization: | The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota |
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 0205-131
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 1993-03-01
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 If light is shined from a point source onto a curved mirror, it focuses on a curve called the caustic. The orthotomic is an intermediate curve used to obtain the caustic. If gamma is a parametrized curve, then the orthotomic of gamma relative to the point S is given by (2((gamma - S) . N ) N) and the caustic of gamma for the light source at S is the evolute of the orthotomic. Note: The package Caustic.m requires another Mathematica package, ParallelCurves.m, in order to execute properly. ParallelCurves.m is available as part of item 1903.
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 Applied Math, Physics, Optics, Caustic, Orthotomic, curve, evolute, geometry
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| README-2.txt (181 B) - Additional package requirement notes | | README.txt (3.1 KB) - Author's notes and documentation | | Caustic.m (10.5 KB) - Mathematica package |  Files specific to Mathematica 2.2 version:
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