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Tracing of photons is fun by itself, but usually one is interested in specific quantities. Therefore it is necessary to register the photon at each point of interest. Here, absorption is considered which has been neglected so far: this is done by weighting the photon with a Lambert-Beer factor that considers the absorption along the path. The absorption optical thickness is accumulated from scattering point to scattering point, integrating the absorption coefficient through all model boxes. The process of tracing fractions of photons is called 'photon weighting'.

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