[OS X] LensForge: Software for professional & amateur lens designers, amateur telescope makers, and others.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:13:56 -0400, John Steinberg
wrote:

LensForge, a tool for professional and amateur lens designers, amateur
telescope makers, and others...

Very hard to tell from the site just what features are available, but
based on the screen shots and tutorials, it appears to be little more
than a paraxial ray tracer. In other words, not a very powerful design
tool, and way overpriced. Depending on what gets added in the promised
1.1 and 1.2 versions, it could be decent, though.

You could try playing around in demo mode- I don't know what the
limitations are. But most likely, you would want to wait for a little
more development (MTF analysis, spot diagrams, CA analysis,
optimization) before forking over actual cash.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com