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In differential geometry and geometric optics, a caustic is the envelope of rays either reflected or refracted by a manifold. It is related to the concept of caustics in optics. The ray's source may be a point (called the radiant) or parallel rays from a point at infinity, in which case a direction vector of the rays must be specified. More generally, especially as applied to symplectic geometry and singularity theory, a caustic is the critical value set of a Lagrangian mapping where is a Lagrangian immersion of a Lagrangian submanifold ''L'' into a symplectic manifold ''M'', and is a Lagrangian fibration of the symplectic manifold ''M''. The caustic is a subset of the Lagrangian fibration's base space ''B''. ==Catacaustic== A catacaustic is the reflective case. With a radiant, it is the evolute of the orthotomic of the radiant. The planar, parallel-source-rays case: suppose the direction vector is and the mirror curve is parametrised as . The normal vector at a point is ; the reflection of the direction vector is (normal needs special normalization) : Having components of found reflected vector treat it as a tangent : Using the simplest envelope form : : which may be unaesthetic, but gives a linear system in and so it is elementary to obtain a parametrisation of the catacaustic. Cramer's rule would serve. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caustic (mathematics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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