Ray Tracer stale

Inspired by a job application for the field of optical engineering I wanted to get my hands a bit dirty and write some own code to trace the path of a light beam in an optical assembly.

The code is hosted on Launchpad.

Example

The example shows a single beam originating from the left lower part of the scene entering a large prism (light blue, n=1.52) which contains a void (dark blue, n=1.00). The beam leaves the scene above the source on the left side.

Features

Among the already implemented and planed features are:

• Configurable light sources
• Geometrical objects with fixed refractive index allowing reflection and transmission of a beam
  • Prism
  • Circle / Ellipse
  • Polygon
• Nesting of objects
• Placement of a detector screen somewhere in the screen