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Volume Caustics

Volume caustics is an alternate term for volumetric caustics, with an identical meaning. It is a type of caustic lighting (raytraced reflections from refractive objects). They are used when its not just the surface of an object that refracts the light, but the light direction changes one or multiple times as it passes through the inside of the object. In other words, it is used with volumetric modelling.

This is the type of caustics that is able to create complex patterns of lighting from interactions with moving fluids and gasses, where the refraction does not just happen at a single point, but at muliple, each point triggering a caustic trace, and potentially creating a complex caustic network.

Because of the high processing overhead of volumetric caustics, they are best kept to limited areas, where possible. Whilst they do produce intensely realistic reflection patterns, they are extremely computationally expensive to render.

See Also: Caustics, Volumetric Modelling, Caustic Network

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Inexpensive Underwater Caustics Using Cg
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Diagnosis Via Brain Music
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Drive to fight Child Pornography Drives Creation of High Volume Image Scanner
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(07/03/2010)
Scientists from RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, Japan and the Institute of Neurology at University College London have discovered that the brains of macaque monkeys undergo significant development when they are taught how to use tool...


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Electronic Arts Campus, Redwood City, California, US
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(26/06/2013)
Loud, distorted and repetitive announcements are common in noisy public spaces like airports and train stations. But turning up the volume might not be the answer.

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(25/09/2009)
Tens of millions of people will be forced to listen to portable music at permanently reduced volume under European Commission proposals to be unveiled next week.

The plans, trailed ahead of talks between Consumer Commissioner...


(10/03/2010)
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