“Specular Polynomials”
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- Specular Polynomials
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A reformulation of specular constraints into polynomial systems that enables efficiently finding a complete set of all admissible specular paths connecting two arbitrary endpoints in a scene, by converting the problem into finding zeros of the determinant of univariate matrix polynomials.
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