Multiple rays of light can coalesce and form bright focusing features known as caustics. These features are singularities of ray optics in the sense that their intensity, according to the ray ...

Choreographing light: Scientists control light patterns called 'caustics' and make coherent images Date: November 13, 2012 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Researchers ...

These multiple images are caused by the black hole dragging space into a whirling motion and stretching the caustics around itself many times. It is the first time that the effects of caustics ...

Often thought of as acids or bases, caustics broadly include desiccants, vesicants, and protoplasmic poisons. The term “corrosive” is often used interchangeably with “caustic,” but ...

Dynamic illumination is particularly common in coral reefs, where patterns known as 'water caustics' play chaotically in the shallows. Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University ...

But what really caught our eye was the manner in which its dial works. It uses caustics to display the clock dial on a wall as light shines through it. If you’ve ever seen sunlight reflect ...