Caustics through the looking glass

DOI10.1007/BF03024207zbMATH Open0547.58012MaRDI QIDQ798993FDOQ798993

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

Publication date: 1984

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

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• Caustics by reflexion in the extended plane

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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• Raman and the mirage revisited: confusions and a rediscovery
• Envelopes of families of Legendre mappings in the unit tangent bundle over the Euclidean space
• Caustics in Extended Euclidean Space
• Envelopes of Legendre curves in the unit tangent bundle over the Euclidean plane
• 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
• Cusps of caustics by reflection in ellipses
• CAUSTICS BY REFLEXION IN THE PLANE WITH STABLE TRIPLE CROSSINGS
• Smoothing of curves and surfaces
• On Cusps of Caustics by Reflection: Billiard Variations on the Four Vertex Theorem and on Jacobi’s Last Geometric Statement
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• Caustics by reflexion in the extended plane
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• Off-Center Reflections: Caustics and Chaos
• A reflecting sundial with cusps of the caustics on a straight line segment
• On the caustic of a convex mirror

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