AR systems based on free-form prism are very widely discussed through several decades. Iterative and theoretical methods to construct the system are widely used. Traditional and the fastest way of designing such a system is to choose by trial method initial structure in an optical design software, and then optimize it. The main issue is to choose the best description and optimization strategy. Moreover the result of optimization for the same surface description but for different starting points will be different. The main goal of the work is to develop an algorithm that helps to generate the initial layout, that can be also developed up to the stage of fulfilling the first-order properties (size of the image for the given angular field) together with achieving moderate image quality.

Су Г. (науч. рук. Романова Г.Э.) Ray tracing method as a way for finding an initial structure of the free-form based ar system // Сборник тезисов докладов конгресса молодых ученых. Электронное издание. – СПб: Университет ИТМО, [2025]. URL: https://kmu.itmo.ru/digests/article/15332