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Snell's law is a special case of Huygen's principle, applied to a
plane wave travelling from one homogeneous medium into a second
homogeneous medium, with a clearly defined discontinuity at the
interface. For a continuously (spatially) varying index of
refraction, the wavefront (not a "ray") must be followed using
Huygen's principle.