DIC Prisms

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microb
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DIC Prisms

#1 Post by microb » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:55 pm

Working through finding Python code to ray trace through glass surfaces to get some DIC prism designs hammered out.

This code is tracing through an aspherical lens:
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Re: DIC Prisms

#2 Post by hans » Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:33 pm

Cool, what package? I messed around with pyoptools some but haven't done anything interesting with it yet.

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Re: DIC Prisms

#3 Post by microb » Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:42 pm

I'm not doing lens assemblies. I just need to test wedge prisms, so I'm putting together Python with matplotlib and some of the different math packages.

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Re: DIC Prisms

#4 Post by Scarodactyl » Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:03 am

This project is extremely cool.

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