T3D Re: ORT

[Joel Alpers <joel.alpers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I may have mentioned this before on this list but Joel has devised
> a very clever Ocular Ray Tracer (called ORT, it's only a little
> thing 8-) and it is live on his web site at
> 
> http://www.frii.com/~rkymtmem/ort
> 
> At least it was last time I checked.  I know he's adding more
> glasses and the capability to handle more surfaces to it.
> 
> There are instructions and pictures associated with it but basically
> it just traces rays backwards from the eye through the ocular you are
> examining and tells you how big of a spot is made.  It also looks at
> the field curvature and the coverage.
> 
> So if you want to see how a Hastings triplet does, hie yourself unto
> this site and check it out.
> 

Good advice up to the last, John ;)  I've run ORT on the Hastings
triplet, but you can't (yet, at least) run that particular configuration
using the WEB interface, sorry!

Joel.


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