InverseLight / ValoMC

Monte Carlo software for simulating light propagation
https://inverselight.github.io/ValoMC/
Other
43 stars 14 forks source link

photon number #27

Open Jaycee0602 opened 3 months ago

Jaycee0602 commented 3 months ago

Hi,

It said: "The total number of photon packets launched 10^6 by default" in the paper called "ValoMC: a Monte Carlo software and MATLAB toolbox for simulating light transport in biological tissue". I was wondering what the time window of this 10^6 is or if it depends on your PC.

Thanks

aaleino commented 3 months ago

Hi. The time it takes to simulate 10^6 photon packets depends at least on the mesh geometry, values of absorption and scattering coefficients and their distributions, and on your PC. In typical setting this could mean maybe 10 seconds, but the more complicated geometry you have, the slower it becomes, and it is impossible to give a general estimate.

Jaycee0602 commented 3 months ago

Hi. The time it takes to simulate 10^6 photon packets depends at least on the mesh geometry, values of absorption and scattering coefficients and their distributions, and on your PC. In typical setting this could mean maybe 10 seconds, but the more complicated geometry you have, the slower it becomes, and it is impossible to give a general estimate.

Thank you so much for your quick reply!