TIM, a ray-tracing program for METATOY research and its dissemination

Dean Lambert; Alasdair C. Hamilton; George Constable; Harsh Snehanshu; Sharvil Talati; Johannes Courtial

doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.011

TIM, a ray-tracing program for METATOY research and its dissemination

Dean Lambert, Alasdair C. Hamilton, George Constable, Harsh Snehanshu, Sharvil Talati, Johannes Courtial

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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 TIMs source code and how to extend it, and we give examples of how we have used TIM in our own research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	711-732
Number of pages	22
Journal	Computer Physics Communications
Volume	183
Issue number	3
Early online date	16 Nov 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.011
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2012

Keywords

Geometrical optics
METATOYs
Ray tracing

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General Physics and Astronomy

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