Abstract
Using a Monte Carlo method, we simulate the appearance of light
pillars produced by nearby light sources and compare their appearance
with simulations of Sun pillars. Photographs of light pillars are
also compared with the simulations. We expand the idea of light and
Sun pillars by examining the reflected-light patterns from several
different known distributions of airborne ice
crystals. Polarization properties of light pillars from nearly
horizontally oriented plate crystals are also simulated.
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