Plotting the Profiles of Cartesian Surfaces by Ray-tracing

Authors

  • Nour Mohammed Hasan Yaseen Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad-Iraq
  • Ahmed Kamal Ahmed Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad-Iraq

Keywords:

Asphericity factor, Cartesian surfaces, skew ray tracing

Abstract

A bundle of light rays, completely parallel to the optical axis, has been used to plot profiles of the Cartesian surfaces with constant paraxial curvature and varying asphericity factor. To accomplish this study, a programming code of skew ray tracing has been constructed to trace rays through all types of Cartesian or quadric surfaces of revolution. The results of this work show a remarkable utility of ray-tracing procedure to plot distinguished Cartesian surfaces profiles.

 

Published

2018-07-02

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Section

Articles

How to Cite

(1)
Plotting the Profiles of Cartesian Surfaces by Ray-Tracing. ANJS 2018, 17 (2), 122-127.