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polarization_stokes — SPECULAR polarization op

使い方

The scene-integrated Stokes vector of a polariser sweep. → (4,), ready for :func:optics.stokes_analyze.

Stokes parameters are linear in radiance, so the spatial mean of the frames has a Stokes vector that is the mean of the per-pixel ones — the vector a non-imaging polarimeter looking at the whole field would report. Fitting I(t) = 0.5 (S0 + S1 cos 2t + S2 sin 2t) gives (S0, S1, S2) directly.

S3 is always exactly 0, and that is a limitation, not a measurement. A set of linear analysers cannot see circular polarisation; a quarter-wave plate is needed. The returned vector is therefore the linear part of the truth, and :func:optics.stokes_analyze will report handedness="linear" for it no matter what the scene actually did. Returning an invented S3 would be worse, and returning a 3-vector would break the Stokes contract the optics family is built on.

The result satisfies that contract by construction — S0 >= sqrt(S1^2 + S2^2 + S3^2), i.e. degree of polarisation at most 1 — because the same non-negativity check that guards :func:polarization_separate is exactly the condition for it. That is why optics.stokes_analyze accepts the output without a further test.

Raises ValueError: as :func:polarization_separate.

詳しい使い方ガイド

参考(サンプルデータ・文献)

実行できる例(この op を実際に呼ぶ検証済みサンプル)

型が繋がる次の op(stokes を入力に取れる)

同カテゴリ(polarization)

polarization_render · polarization_separate · polarization_dolp_map


Provenance: specularity.py — SPECULAR operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

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