Question How can I determine the angle of an incidence for a ray relative to the surface that it intersects? Synopsis Determining Angle of Incidence from an Incident Ray Table Solution The Incident Ray Table provides the XYZ direction vectors for the ray, but these are relative to the coordinate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
