Caustics through the looking glass

DOI10.1007/BF03024207MaRDI QIDQ798993zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James William Bruce, C. G. Gibson, Peter J. Giblin

Publication date 1984

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024207

zbMATH Keywords

causticplane curvescatastrophe theoryosculating conic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Geometric optics (78A05) Differential spaces (58A40) Catastrophe theory (58K35)

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• ONE-PARAMETER FAMILIES OF CAUSTICS BY REFLEXION IN THE PLANE
• Caustics of spline curves
• Through the looking-glass, and what the quadratic camera found there
• Generic 1-parameter families of caustics by reflexion in the plane
• CAUSTICS BY REFLEXION IN THE PLANE WITH STABLE TRIPLE CROSSINGS
• Smoothing of curves and surfaces
• Cusps of caustics by reflection in ellipses
• Caustics by reflexion in the extended plane
• On Cusps of Caustics by Reflection: Billiard Variations on the Four Vertex Theorem and on Jacobi’s Last Geometric Statement
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• Off-Center Reflections: Caustics and Chaos
• On the caustic of a convex mirror
• A reflecting sundial with cusps of the caustics on a straight line segment

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