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Photorealistic Learned Landscapes for Augmented Reality
Published on: June 27, 2025
Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks
Jad C Halimeh1, Tolga Ergin, Jonathan Mueller
1Institut für Angewandte Physik and DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Abstract:
Using home-built dedicated ray-tracing software, we simulate photorealistic images of sceneries in three dimensions including dielectric carpet cloaks--i.e., continuously varying refractive-index distributions that allow for invisibility cloaking of a bump in a metallic carpet. Results for the ideal and for a simplified cloak are shown. The presented material gives a visual and intuitive impression of the performance of different arrangements and might be ideally suited for communicating the concepts of transformation optics to the general public.
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