Re: [ATM] Too Small Optics-( and flex produced optics)

["Don Clement" <clement.focuser@verizon.net>]

It seems to me, the way we are taught to produce aspheric surfaces is
totally backwards. Start with the easily made sphere that can have a super
smooth perfect surface. Then, with great effort and frustration, go about
mutilating that perfect smooth surface by distorting the pitch lap. Seems
like the better path is to distort the optics and use the full contact lap
to naturally produce a smooth sphere? But that's dogma - riding on polygon
wheels instead of round ones. Time for a different paradigm.

Don Clement
Running Springs, California

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost

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