3-D two-point ray tracing in pictures

Introduction

Two-point ray tracing carried out by means of the CRT program is controlled by many numerical parameters. To approach the optimum set of parameters is important and sometimes complex task. To plot the normalized ray parameters at the normalized ray domain, the decomposition of the normalized ray domain into homogeneous triangles, or the distribution of the ray endpoints, homogeneous triangles, and receivers at the reference surface may be very useful for the selection of the optimum numerical parameters controlling the shooting algorithm. Program RPPLOT has thus recently been developed to generate PostScript files with figures of the normalized ray domain and reference surface containing the above mentioned information. Program RPPLOT is designed as a post processing program to the CRT program.

This brief paper would like to illustrate the usage of the RPPLOT program on the example of two-point ray tracing in the model with a lenticular inclusion (Klimes 1995). The example has been presented as a poster at the EAGE conference (Bulant 1997) in order to explain the shooting algorithm (Bulant 1996a,b).

The data for this computation may be found in the subdirectory len of the CRT package. To repeat the computation and to generate Figures 2,4,5,6,7, run program crt.for with main input data file len-crt.dat, and then program rpplot.for with main input data files len-rp2.dat, len-rp4.dat, ..., len-rp7.dat, respectively.

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