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DBLGAUSS.LEN - A DOUBLE-GAUSS OBJECTIVE
Dblgauss is a starting design for a conventional photographic objective of the type often used for 35mm single-lens reflex cameras. The double-Gauss design form has dominated the class of photographic lenses for many years. There are literally thousands of adaptations of this form, which has an apt...
CCL graphics routines and gshow.
Question Why doesn't my simple CCL graphics routine work in CCL? Synopsis CCL graphics routines and gshow. Solution The most common cause of this is a failure to place a gshow command at the end of a sequence of lineto ( glt) or moveto ( gmt) commands. These commands are cached in memory to speed...
CCL Editors
Question Should I use the OSLO or UltraEdit text editor for CCL? Synopsis CCL Editors Symptoms UltraEdit is a third party program that has serious professional-level file editing features such as multiple-file editing, extensive searching options and color syntax coding to name a few. This makes it...
Error in optimization: Error function has no weight
Question "I am using OSLO-EDU and attempting to follow an example from your documentation (i.e. the OSLO Optics Reference). I can follow everything just fine until I get to optimization. When I follow the directions and attempt to perform an optimization iteration, I get the error message: Error...
Saving Irradiance Maps as Text Files, and saving Ray Data
Question (1) How do I save the illuminance map as a text file? I have been looking at the menu and cannot find the right selection. How does the 'save raydata' option work? where does it save the raydata? How do I reload the saved ray data? --------------------------------------------- (2) I have...
53. OSLO Tip: Lens Flipping
Known problem with angular dependence of polarization calculation
Question I am doing a polarization calculation where I an sending either linear or elliptically polarized light into my system. I seem to be getting incorrect answers for some orientations of the polarization axis of the input beam. Is there a known problem related to this? Synopsis Known problem...
Property Generators and Utilities
2D and 3D Optimizers - TracePro's optimizer utilities allow interactive sketching to quickly enter 2D and 3D profiles and then extrude, revolve, and combine these profiles to create sophisticated geometry, like lightpipes and biconic reflectors, as well as free-form optics. Visualization options...
Image File for Bitmap Source
File needed to perform the tutorial detailed in the Bitmap Source Users Manual. The Bitmap Source Module is a utility program reads an image (e.g. jpeg file) and creates a Ray File that can be inserted into a TracePro model as a file source. The Bitmap Source feature is available in the TracePro...