Simple medium

Description

Medium This medium allows defining any dielectric function for describing homogenous isotropic materials ranging from dielectrics (water, glass, …) to semiconductors and metals.

Children nodes

Dielectric function dielectricfunc

Dielectric function of the medium

Scattering scattering

Volume scattering properties

Parameters

name

type

description

precedence

integer

The scene medium precedence or priority value See modelling volumes for more details

Ocean XML 6.1 example

<medium type="simple" name="glassmedium" precedence="10">
     <dielectricfunc type="na" name="dielectricfunc">
             <spectrum type="cauchy" name="n" b="1.5235" c="0.00424672"/>
             <spectrum name="a" type="tabulated" start="380E-9" end="780E-9" num="41">
                     13.93   8.53    5.21    5.44    6.05    5.72    5.76    5.43    5.10
                     4.02    2.77    3.32    3.92    3.78    3.97    3.27    2.90    3.31
                     3.87    3.91    4.84    5.63    6.01    6.80    7.75    8.51    9.13
                     10.28   10.85   11.67   12.65   14.02   14.81   16.04   17.04   18.25
                     19.06   19.92   21.14   21.97   23.21
             </spectrum>
     </dielectricfunc>
</medium>