Re: [ATM] Osloedu (Linux) and Schmidt polynomials

["Richard F.L.R. Snashall" <rflrs@rcn.com>]

Dominic-Luc Webb wrote:
> I now discover that my original lens files I
> created for my Schmidt designs give errors when I try to open with
> Osloedu. Looking through Osloedu, I notice the window where I enter
> the polynomial terms in the new version starts at 4th power, accepting
> 6th, 8th and 10th terms, but no hint where to enter the first term
> (A^2). The spot diagrams I am getting are clearly worse than what I
> used to get and not sure how to do this. Anyone know about this or
> have suggestions?
>
The trick I've seen is R = 0.5 / first-term, but set the
conic for a paraboloid.
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