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    ATO Member HarryChiling's Avatar
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    Illustrations?

    This question is for Darryl in particular,

    Where do you get all the illustrations for your lenses? Everytime you talk of a topic you have a picture of a lens that suits your explanation, and all the pictures are the same color and have a theme that ties them together (btw very impressive). I would like to know what software you use and where you got it?
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    *Dave at OptiVision has a web based tracer integration package that's awesome.

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    Funny thing Harry mentioned that. I was just wondering the same thing

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    I create my illustrations in a variety of ways. Contour plots for specific lens designs are generally produced by our ray-tracing software, and I touch them up a bit in Photoshop. "Generic" or illustrative plots I might just draw manually in a vector drawing progam to exemplify certain features. Lens cross-sections I create in a number of ways, usually either by using our ray-tracing software, drawing them in a drawing program, or a combination of both (taking a drawing from our ray-tracing software and tweaking it in a drawing program).

    Of course, you can also make a program to do these illustrations. For instance, that Optical Analysis program I wrote a few months back creates lens cross-section drawings in bitmap form. You can also create contour plots in MS Excel and various cartography programs, if you have access to progressive lens measurement data.
    Darryl J. Meister, ABOM

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