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by uoaei 795 days ago
Are there any good resources for spectral ray tracing for other frequencies of light, e.g. radio frequencies?
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It's the same thing! What are you trying to do with it?

One thing you'll run into is that there isn't a clear frequency response curve for non-visible, so you need to invent your own frequency to RGB function (false color).

Another thing is that radio waves have much longer wavelengths than visible, so diffractive effects tend to be a lot more important, and ray tracing (spectral or otherwise) doesn't do this well. Modeling diffraction is typically done using something like FDTD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference_time-domain_...

What are the applications you have in mind?

I'm no RF guy, but I imagine you quickly will have to care about areas where the wavelike properties of EM radiation dominates, in which case ray tracing is not the right tool for the job.