Refraction Simulation

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Post by davidbarker » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 3:04 PM UTC

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Post by lutorm » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 9:19 PM UTC

That is a nice demo! My wife is teaching optics right now, this looks like something she could have her students explore with to get intuition for what happens in different situations.

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Post by Ono-Sendai » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC

Might as well add my one. It's not interactive, however it might give you an idea of why waves actually refract: http://youtu.be/y0gFrte5auQ?list=PLpYLorG2XEtQKD7uHC8dK1inU6...

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Post by vitd » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 9:31 PM UTC

It would be really nice if there was some text that mentioned you need to have WebGL enabled if it's not. And it might be nice if there were instructions or a description of what we were seeing.

Other than that, it looks really nice!

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Post by hcarvalhoalves » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 11:13 PM UTC

Nice. I wish I could add and arrange my own lens elements though!

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Post by BlakePetersen » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 1:14 AM UTC

This is pretty awesome stuff! I'd love to tinker with it and it sounds like a few others would like to as well. Do you have any plans to open source this?

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Post by kghose » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 1:29 AM UTC

Very cool! Could find an interesting numerical instability https://plus.google.com/photos/109059794947950815445/albums/...

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Post by LeoPanthera » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 2:41 AM UTC

This is fun, though I wish there was an option for white light - and a traditional prism!

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Post by WhoBeI » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 3:04 AM UTC

Very nice. Thank you.

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Post by pit » Fri, Sep 19, 2014, 3:12 AM UTC

Best part: Chrome lets you right-click/Save As... to download a snapshot of these beautiful simulations.