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Surfaces such as gradient index and non-sequential are handled by ray tracing. The surface transfer function concept is extended to span multiple surfaces at once, so a range of surfaces is described by a single transfer function. Groups of surfaces to be handled by ray tracing rather than diffraction propagation are user defined.
