Caustic

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What Wikipedia says

In optics, a caustic or caustic network is the envelope of light rays which have been reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object, or the projection of that envelope of rays on another surface.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Caustic (optics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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