Re: ATM Ray Tracing Software

[Ari <Ari@birmingham-us.crosswinds.net>]

Try Interactive Ray Tracer (IRT), or StatPlot.

--Ari
        There's light at the end of the Sonotube.

Michael P Lindner wrote:
> 
> Being ever the enterprising soul, I wrote a ray trace program last
> night, using the information in Rutten & van Venrooij. Has anybody done
> this before? Specifically, on p. 262, when computing tilt, the variable
> t0 is used but not defined. I assumed this was defined to be Z0 - d,
> like it is in several of the other computations.  Is that right?
> 
> Anyway, I haven't played with it too much, but it is WAY cool to SEE
> spherical abberation as a "movie" of dots converging after running
> parallel rays through a simple lens.
> 
> Can anybody recommend some cheap (or free) ray trace software I can run my
> own against to verify that it's working properly?
> 
> --
> Michael P Lindner