RE: [ATM] Re: [atm_free] The zonal Foucault test is freeofinherentcorrection bias - some supporting graphs

[Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>]

Richard Klappal wrote:



>Why doesn't someone who remembers their differential calculus just do a
>sensitivity analysis of the ray trace.
>

The fundamental reason nobody is doing this is that it won't answer the 
questions.  Diffraction effects are very significant in the Foucault 
test.  Ray tracing doesn't take them into account at all.  You have to 
use wave optics to get a decent simulation of the Foucault test.

-- 
Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com


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