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🌈 Raindrop Ray Fan: Descartes Rainbow, Dispersion and Alexander Dark Band

Trace sunlight through a spherical raindrop with Snell's law and Fresnel losses, find the Descartes minimum-deviation ray for each colour, and see the resulting primary and secondary bows and the dark band between them over a meadow.

Optics & Light3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender
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Trace sunlight through a spherical raindrop with Snell's law and Fresnel losses, find the Descartes minimum-deviation ray for each colour, and see the resulting primary and secondary bows and the dark band between them over a meadow.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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