Polynomial Optics Code Package
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(C) 2012, Matthias Hullin <[email protected]>
(University of British Columbia)
(C) 2012, Johannes Hanika <[email protected]>
(Weta Digital)


0. WHAT IS THIS?

Our EGSR 2012 paper on Polynomial Optics provides an alternative
approach to approximative ray-tracing through optical systems. This
package contains a C++ library consisting of templated classes for the
manipulation of polynomials, a set of predefined optical elements, for
instance for spherical and cylindrical surfaces, as well as a database
of recent and historic glasses.

Please find the latest version of the package on the project website, 
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2012/PolynomialOptics/


1. LIST OF FILES

README - this file
Makefile
Example_BasicArithmetic.cpp (PD)
Example_PostprocessImage.cpp (PD)
InputPFM/night2.pfm
OpticalElements/Cylindrical5.hh      
OpticalElements/FindFocus.hh	     
OpticalElements/OpticalMaterial.hh   
OpticalElements/PointToPupil5.hh
OpticalElements/Propagation5.hh
OpticalElements/Spherical5.hh
OpticalElements/TwoPlane5.hh
TruncPoly/TruncPolySystem.hh
include/spectrum.h
include/CImg.h (CeCILL-C)


2. LICENSE / TERMS OF USE

No warranty is offered or implied; use this code at your own risk.
Unless otherwise marked in the LIST OF FILES, the code is provided
under the following BSD-ish license:

 * Feel free to do what you want with this code, as long as the
 * copyright information from the file header remains intact. Needless
 * to say, we appreciate proper attribution of our work, be it through
 * citation of our EGSR 2012 paper, movie credits, or otherwise.

Just in case you end up using the code in your research work, here's the
BibTeX citation:

@article{PolynomialOptics-Hullin2012, 
    author = {Matthias B. Hullin and Johannes Hanika and Wolfgang Heidrich}, 
    title = {{Polynomial Optics}: 
             A Construction Kit for Efficient Ray-Tracing of Lens Systems}, 
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EGSR 2012)},
    volume = {31},
    number = {4},
    year = {2012},
    month = jul,
}

We'd love to see this code and/or data used in production! We're also
prepared to allow the use of the code in free software products. In
either case, just drop a line to Matthias <[email protected]>.

CImg.h is an unmodified copy of the CImg library by David Tschumperl'e
and many others, provided under the CeCILL-C license. Files marked
(PD) are in the public domain.


3. USAGE / DESCRIPTION

We provide a GNU Makefile for a gcc build environment. No additional
libraries are needed.

From the working directory where this README file is located, compile
the code examples by calling

  make

Then execute the binaries:

  bin/ex0-basicarithmetic
  bin/ex1-postprocess


The Basic Arithmetic example demonstrates some, well, basic
arithmetic. Have a look into Example_BasicArithmetic.cpp to get an
idea of what the library can do.

The Postprocess example takes a portable floatmap image, and re-traces
it through an achromatic lens to obtain what is Figure 13 in the
paper. The input image InputPFM/night2.pfm must be present for this
example to run correctly. Should your package not contain it, download
it separately on the project homepage (see top of this README
file). The output files, written to sub-folder output/, are also in
the PFM format, which can be read by ImageMagick, Adobe Photoshop and
pretty much any HDR-capable image viewer out there. Alternatively,
CImg can also export images to low dynamic range formats such as PNG
(see CImg documentation for details).

If you would like to contribute another example, we'll be more than
happy to include it in a future version of this package.


4. FINAL REMARKS

Enjoy!