Real‐time simulation of thin‐film interference with surface thickness variation using the shallow water equations

• Published in: Computer animation and virtual worlds Vol. 35; no. 4
• Main Authors: Gu, Mingyi, Dai, Jiajia, Chen, Jiazhou, Yan, Ke, Huang, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Matrix methods; Reflectance; Shallow water equations; Thickness; thickness variation; Thin films; thin‐film interference; Transfer matrices; transfer matrix method

Thin‐film interference is a significant optical phenomenon. In this study, we employed the transfer matrix method to pre‐calculate the reflectance of thin‐films at visible light wavelengths. The reflectance is saved as a texture through color space transformation. This advancement has made real‐time...