3D NURBS representation of surfaces for illumination

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4832, Issue , 2002, Pages 293-301

  Davenport, Thomas L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Faceted; Illuminance; Illumination; NURBS; Optimizat ion; Reflector; Superposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIGHTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION;

FACET BY FACET DESIGN; ILLUMINANCE; ILLUMINATION DESIGN; NONUNIFORM RATIONAL BASIS SPLINES; SUPERPOSITION; TAILORING; UNIFORM LIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0037673660     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.486463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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