Prentice's Rule - It's Applications and Limitations by Don Whitney

[Steve Machol]

An article on Prentice's Rule written by the late Don Whitney of American Optical. This was contributed by Don's son, AO lens designer Richard (Dick) Whitney. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

[gvolpe]

An article on Prentice's Rule written by the late Don Whitney of American Optical. This was contributed by Don's son, AO lens designer Richard (Dick) Whitney. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

Thank you Harry.

Anyway, those links contain formulas involving decentration. My goal is not to decenter the lens but just blocking the blank tilted with our automatic blocker or tilt it on the generator to achieve the correct prism at geometrical centre.