Klaus Simon ; Beat Trachsler - A Random Walk Approach for Light Scattering in Material

dmtcs:3333 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2003, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC, Discrete Random Walks (DRW'03) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3333
A Random Walk Approach for Light Scattering in MaterialConference paper

Authors: Klaus Simon 1; Beat Trachsler 1

  • 1 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology [Thun]


Understanding reflection is one of the key competences in graphic arts industry. A very popular approach was given by Kubelka andMunk [1931] who derived a simple relationship between the scattering and absorption coefficients and the overall reflectance. This paper presents an alternative approach which describes the behavior of light in matter as a special kind of random walk.

https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3333
Source: HAL:hal-01183928v1
Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC, Discrete Random Walks (DRW'03)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2003
Imported on: May 10, 2017
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS], [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM], [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO], [INFO.INFO-CG]Computer Science [cs]/Computational Geometry [cs.CG], [en] Random Walk, Kubelka-Munk, Light Scattering, First-Passage Time Probability, Narayana Numbers, Catalan Numbers, Chebyshev Polynomials

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