We present a real-time GPU caustics rendering technique for dynamic scenes under environment illumination taking into account light occlusion. The dynamic scenes consist of caustic objects (reflective and/or refractive objects which produce caustics) and receiver objects (non-reflective and nonrefractive), that can be translated and rotated. As the light source, we consider environment illumina...

Cold dark matter haloes are populated by high-density structures with sharplypeaked profiles known as caustics which have not yet been resolved by 3dimensional numerical simulations. Here, we derive semi-analytic expressions for the density profiles near caustics in haloes which form by self-similar accretions of dark matter with infinitesimal velocity dispersion. A simple rescaling shows that ...

This paper explores theoretically the possibility of using caustics, formed in the ultrasonic field diffracted by defects, as an approach to the inverse scattering problem, The case of crack-like defects is considered in detail, using the geometrical theory of diffraction. The involute of the far field caustic reproduces the projection of the crack edge in the incident beam direction, for a pla...

We present a method for the visualization of volumetric caustics in single-scattering participating media. The caustics beams are generated from a projected grid in light’s image space, making the solution independent from the geometric complexity of generators. The caustic volumes are extruded in the geometry shader and accumulated into the final volumetric effect.