Ray Tracing Tutorial

**HarryChiling** · 09-22-2006, 02:13 PM

Brent McCardle one of our fine examples of an optician has posted a great ray tracing tutorial

http://onlineopticianry.com/wordpress/?p=108

I just love it, in depth and fully illustrated, if you are studying for the ABO check it out.

**lensgrinder** · 09-22-2006, 03:01 PM

Thank You Harry. I hope some people will learn from it much like I did from Darryl's article on ray tracing and Ellen's book.

Brent

**wmcdonald** · 09-22-2006, 05:34 PM

This is very well done. Again, I am proud to see what you have become, and pleased to see you have become a professional educator.

**OPTIDONN** · 09-22-2006, 08:21 PM

geez Brent when you said you were working on this the other day I never thought you would have something this awsome done so soon!!
KEEP 'EM COMMING!!!!!:cheers:

**jofelk** · 10-09-2006, 08:31 AM

I down loaded the demo version and went through part of the Zemax demo, found under HELP,on the web site.
http://www.zemax.com/kb/articles/50/...emo/Page1.html
This may be interesting to some. I need more time to look it over.

**HarryChiling** · 10-09-2006, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by joefelk

I down loaded the demo version and went through part of the Zemax demo, found under HELP,on the web site.
http://www.zemax.com/kb/articles/50/...emo/Page1.html
This may be interesting to some. I need more time to look it over.

You may also want to try out OSLO for ray tracing.

http://www.lambdares.com/downloads/index.phtml

Very interesting and I think easy to use.