RADMC-3D model images of L₂ Pup. The field of view of each image is 0.414″ (identical to Figs. 2–4), with north up and east to the left. The position and adopted angular size of the star is represented with a dashed circle. The color scale is a function of the square root of the irradiance, from 100 to 8000 Jy arcsec^-2 in the 1.04 − 1.09 μm bands, 0 to 25 000 Jy arcsec^-2 in the 1.24 − 1.28 μm bands and 0 to 100 000 Jy arcsec^-2 in the HKL bands. The white ellipse represented in the 2.17 μm panel corresponds to the central object model derived from the VINCI data (Sect. 2.2.2).