[ATM] Re: Mirror Cell support ---PLOP?

[fabio@voreas.com]

You can get a description of CELL's algorithm in: 
http://www.davidchandler.com/cell.htm 

Not trying to nitpick, but any method you use to calculate mirror supports 
(or for that matter any software out there) will rely on an algorithm... It 
so happens that the one PLOP uses is based on a more sophisticated and 
realistic one. CELL uses equal weight subdivision. PLOP relies on finite 
element analysis. 

Fabio 

==============================
Mutalib Abdallah writes: 

> Another way to do it is to use the older program CELL.EXE.   According to 
> the author, it finds the optimum support points by means of an algorithm, 
> but the algorithm itself is undisclosed. 
> 
>> From: Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>
>> To: atm@atmlist.net
>> Subject: Re: [ATM] Mirror Cell support ---PLOP?
>> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:52:32 -0400 
>> 
>> So far as I know, David Lewis has not written a Mac version of Plop.
>> Let me know your mirror dimensions, and perhaps I can do some Plop runs
>> for you. 
>> 
>> Need:
>> diameter
>> focal length
>> thickness
>> glass type
>> diagonal minor axis 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark Holm
>> mdholm@telerama.com 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/
>  
> 
> _______________________________________________
> ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/
 
_______________________________________________
ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/