raypier-optics

This post is in response to comments from https://github.com/Jonas231. (See https://github.com/

Since there were no objections, I've gone ahead and changed the name. To post to the group, use

Hi Bryan, Congratulations on the new release! I generally prefer more permissive licences these days,

Hey folks (well, anyone who's following), I've re-christened raytrace as Raypier. I decided

Here's a section image parallel to the optical axis through the focal plane for a gaussian beam

Cool! Glad to hear! I might check it out in the near future. I've become a much better programmer

Hi Bryan, (It was exactly a year ago that we exchanged emails last) I found a project that is

I just wanted to confirm that raytrace and its dependencies install easily on my ubuntu 10.04 machine

Hi Elliot, Just a heads up / pull-request: I just did a bit more pruning of some obsolete modules (

On Aug 17, 11:42 pm, Elliot Hallmark <permafact...@gmail.com> wrote: > My friend Alan is

works as expected. thanks. On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:09 AM, bryancole <bryan...@teraview.com>

> > Right, but I am not talking about a cylinder as a shape defined by a > radius, but a

I've pulled in your change.I've also closed the Cython branch having merged into default.

On Jun 20, 9:03 pm, Elliot Hallmark <permafact...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am wondering if

> > Also, bryan, i posted a bug to your bit bucket page. totally non > critical, but i did

by the way if you can get the quadratic coefficents of the spline segment from the points on the

I just tried Elliot's repository but I get the same errors. But I was able to install Bryan's

Your guess was perfectly right. Mayavi and OpenGL seems to be the problem as running mayavi2 from

On Apr 19, 1:22 am, Elliot Hallmark <permafact...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Note, I've

slow and steady. Sounds like you are going to do it right anyways. I'm not in a rush, just

> I want to merge the cython and default branches in the repo > (effectively closing the

excellent. the debug message shows. I will run "python setup.py build_ext --inplace" now

Elliot, Just ran across this group a few days ago. In answer to your questions, optimization is used

> If nurbs ever get going, I would have no more use for the involute. > If nurbs stay beyond

Just to let people know, I've tested the Cython raytrace branch on a windows (XP) machine with

horray! Free form optics with optimizations sounds really interesting. So does learning cython. I

Hi Bryan, Yep, I had to do the same thing, over on python-RTC. No spam in gmail but plenty of spam on

Great, this sounds like a viable way of handling the parameters. My biggest problem was that I always

This is just to say Happy New Year to you all. Thanks to Matthias for prodding me. I hadn't

ok, I deleted my accidental repo and brought my fork of bryan's repo up to date. all went