snell_angle — 3D optics op

• Data kinds: measurement → measurement

• Call: import match3d; match3d.snell_angle(theta_i_deg, eta1=1.0, eta2=1.5) (or ops3d.get("snell_angle"))

Usage

Angle of incidence (deg) → angle of refraction (deg). n1 sinθi = n2 sinθt. Beyond the critical angle it is NaN (total internal reflection).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

• snell_refraction — py -3.11 examples_3d/snell_refraction.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept measurement as input)

vol_gaussian_psf · fuse_to_voxel · fresnel_reflectance

Same category (optics)

reflect · refract · fresnel_reflectance · normal_from_reflection

*Provenance: match3d.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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