2011/01/31 by Dean Lambert, Alasdair C. Hamilton, George W. A. Constable +4 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies #Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Optics #Physics #Ray tracing (physics) #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2011.11.011
published as Comp. Phys. Commun. 183 711-732 (2012) · 19 pages, 15 figures
arxiv created 2011/03/25 · openalex publication_date 2011/11/17 · arxiv updated 2015/03/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
TIM (The Interactive METATOY) is a ray-tracing program specifically tailored towards our research in METATOYs, which are optical components that appear to be able to create wave-optically forbidden light-ray fields. For this reason, TIM possesses features not found in other ray-tracing programs. TIM can either be used interactively or by modifying the openly available source code; in both cases, it can easily be run as an applet embedded in a web page. Here we describe the basic structure of TIM's source code and how to extend it, and we give examples of how we have used TIM in our own research.