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🗼 Lighthouse Fresnel Lens: Beam, Range, Horizon and Rotation - 2D Ray and Sea-Curvature Lab

2D companion of the lighthouse lab: ray tracing through the Fresnel lens rings, the flash beam profile, Allard luminous range against the geographic horizon over the curved sea, with the same physics module as the 3D version.

Optics & Light2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Lighthouse Fresnel Lens: Beam, Range, Horizon and Rotation - 2D Ray and Sea-Curvature Lab ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the lighthouse lab: ray tracing through the Fresnel lens rings, the flash beam profile, Allard luminous range against the geographic horizon over the curved sea, with the same physics module as the 3D version.

Fresnel LensLighthouseAllard LawHorizonGeometric Optics

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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