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🏜 Inferior Mirage Simulator - 2D Ray Paths over a Hot Road

2D companion of the inferior mirage simulator: a side-view ray-tracing lab where light bends through a hot air layer above a road, showing direct and mirage rays, the inverted image and the temperature profile.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Inferior Mirage Simulator - 2D Ray Paths over a Hot Road ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the inferior mirage simulator: a side-view ray-tracing lab where light bends through a hot air layer above a road, showing direct and mirage rays, the inverted image and the temperature profile.

Inferior MirageRefractionAtmospheric LayersRay Tracing

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

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