Use exact intersection solutions for certain conics

GNiendorf / tracepy

Ray Tracing and Optical Design in Python

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Use exact intersection solutions for certain conics #5

Open GNiendorf opened 5 years ago

GNiendorf commented 5 years ago

Some conics allow for exact solutions for ray tracing - situations where numerically solving for the intersection point of the ray and surface is extremely wasteful. This could offer significant speedups.