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Optical Design Software for simulating systems of lenses, prisms, etc.

Status: Pre-Alpha

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Objects including spherical lenses, point light source, RBG imager, image light sources, triangular prisms, plano-aspheric lenses, surfaces defined by revolved or extruded 2D cubic splines.
Optical media: Vacuum, Borosilicate, BK7, SF10, F2 Flint glass, Magnesium Fluoride, Topas, Calcite, Metal, etc
Optical computation of reflection, refraction, absorption and transmission through birefringent materials with photons of arbitrary polarization (linear, circular, elliptical). Still needs test and debug.
Computation of light propagation through the system to generate simulated images
Basic class architecture for optical computations: photons, polarization, 3D vectors, complex math, etc
3D visualization of optical system
UI Action infrastructure to allow simple addition of user functionality
Display and editing of object properties, positions and assembly hierarchy
Save and load designs in XML
Displaying and saving simulated image results
Automatic optimization of arbitrary parameters to achieve best focus

Add object like more complex light sources (coherent, polarized, incoherent and combinations).
Develop a richer UI infrastructure to support typical use cases.
Compute the effect of typical manufacturing tolerances in lens and positioning.

File storage and loading, XML schema development. This is mostly done.
User interface design
Result rendering
3D rendering of optical system
Development of new optical object types like grin lenses, apertures, gratings, etc.
Development of new light sources like Gaussian beams, etc
Artwork
Documentation/ Wiki
SourceForge project upkeep and management
Optical interaction physics and computation to include birefringence and to improve accuracy of results particularly with respect to photon polarization.
Maybe some aspects could even be compared to experimentation or on-paper analysis for verification purposes