Water is a colorless and transparent liquid, but if you spill water on the ground or clothes, the color of the water-soaked part will look darker than the surroundings for some reason. Aryan Kashyap, ...

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) micro-spectroscopy merges infrared (IR) spectroscopy with visualization. As IR spectroscopy offers high specificity for molecular structure and chemical composition, ...

Lukas Peet’s Table Lights lamps use specular and diffuse optical effects to cast light in all the right places. Lampshades were invented for a reason — to keep bulbs from outright blinding people — ...

Retinal image structure contains an entangled mixture of information about three-dimensional (3D) shape, surface reflectance and the illumination field. Although the veridical separation of these ...

Manufacturers are adopting automated optical inspection (AOI) systems based on phase shift profilometry (PSP) for applications in advanced packaging processes. Many of these processes use front ...

If you've been paying attention to the launches of the new generation of game consoles, you've probably heard talk of ray tracing. Ray tracing is a rendering technique for photorealistic graphics by ...

DRIFTS is routinely used in quality control applications, materials characterization, and catalytic studies in industrial and research settings. However, optimal instrument setup and sample ...