How to simulate the double slit interference experiment?

[aty84122]

thanks

[abstrax]

thanks

Short answer: You can't.

Long answer: Light propagation in Octane (and most other renderers) is based on a ray model without interference. And without interference you don't get the effect you are after.

Cheers,
Marcus

[aty84122]

Thank upstairs

[radiance]

this would require light transport down to quantum mechanics for which current computers are too slow... Maybe in 5+ years...

Radiance

[aty84122]

Thank upstairs

[Miguel Lescano]

No need to simuate quantum mechanics, according to this paper. I don't understand all of it, but I do understand that they seem optimistic this can be implemented in existing raytracing solutions.

cameraculture.media.mit.edu/files/raskarEG2010ALFrendering.pdf

[Miguel Lescano]

Another related paper:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/t6h0421628r8w831/

[erik]

"simulated" maybe, but not truely modelled I'd say. Like a bump map might simulate bumps but it's not truely modelling the situation. But it is a very interesting paper.