OSOD: Open Source Optical Design (alias Roadrunner/KDP/ODP)
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OSOD
Open Source Optical Design
Read about it in OSOD.TXT, then download it by double clicking on
OSOD.EXE. Version 1.0 now available.
Copyright © Acme Optics 2000-2001, All rights reserved.
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Download from
ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/Windows/optics/OSOD.EXE
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OSOD.TXT:
The self-extracting file OSOD.EXE holds the Open Source Optical Design
(OSOD) program version 1.0
released for free use, distribution and modification by Acme Optics of
Glendale California.
Release date is 1/25/2001.
In order to re-build this program, PRG.EXE, you will need:
1. Lahey Computer Systems LF95 Express Fortran compiler version 5.6 or
later.
2. Interactive System Software (ISS) Winteracter version 3.0 or later
3. In order to generate updated .PDF manuals you will need a full
version of Adobe Acrobat and a
copy of Microsoft Word.
Without much work, this program can be ported to LINUX using the Lahey
LF95 LINUX Fortran
compiler and ISS X/Winteracter. With a lot more work, it may be
converted to C and ported to
any computer platform.
TO BUILD IT:
Self extract the program to the \WINOPT directory.
Install the compiler and Winteracter following their instructions
Go to the Winopt directory and type:
MAKEOPT
LN
The resultant PRG.EXE is a full featured optical design program with
most of the features
of CODE-V, ACCOS-V and ZEMAX and it is free.
OSOD can be used without restriction by anyone for any purpose.
If downloads of OSOD are not successful from the links at the Acme
Optics web site, we will
send out CD-ROMS to anyone for $15.00 a CD-ROM.
Acme Optics
www.acmeoptics.com
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see also:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010302023422/http://www.acmeoptics.com/
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Current version of Roadrunner and Roadrunner LT is 4.20f, dated
2/14/2001
PROGRAM CAPABILITIES
IMMEDIATE MODE, INTERACTIVE INPUT AND ANALYSIS:
Input and output in an interactive, scrolling environment. Input from
the keyboard or from data files. Output to printer or disk in a range
of formats. Keep a running record of a program session. Set up user
defaults in a file to customize your program environment. Have full
control over graphics. Execute OPERATING SYSTEM level commands without
exiting the program. Use the full screen editor to write macros and
enter lens data. Use a large selection of mathematical commands to
manipulate program data. Store and recall numeric and string data in
the many storage registers available. Set internal program operating
conditions which control ray tracing and optimization. Calculate and
display paraxial, 3rd, 5th and 7th order and chromatic aberrations.
Model lens systems with up to 25 surfaces in the free program
distribution and up to 500 surfaces with paid user support. Trace real
single rays and output the results in many forms. Capture ray data for
further calculation. Explicitly trace differential rays and display the
results. Trace fans of rays, ray spot diagrams, create line spread
functions, radial energy distributions, ensquared energy distributions,
complex aperture functions, wave front maps and wave front
Zernike-polynomial decomposition's. Compute polychromatic geometric and
diffraction based Optical Transfer Functions. Thru-focus Optical
Transfer Functions. Do immediate mode arithmetic manipulation of user
input and program generated data. Use the GET capability to retrieve
and manipulate optical system and other data. Use the powerful TABLE
WRITER to set up spread sheet output. Do linear, parabolic and cubic
data interpolation from the keyboard or in macros. Use the RPN (Reverse
Polish Notation) stack as a built-in calculator.
MACRO PROGRAMMING:
Use a well organized, semi compiled, macro programming language to
write programs from inside the program which run fast and act like new
hard-wired program commands. Have up to 32 lines in each macro (1024
lines in each macro under paid user support). Use the macro library
feature to save and organize your work. Every program command can be
made part of a macro. Use the lightning fast macro functions during
optimization to create operands of unbelievable complexity. Nest macros
20 levels deep. Use the powerful data transfer statements and branching
commands to give your macros intelligence.
GRAPHICS:
Take complete control over program graphics. Plot optical systems from
any viewpoint. Plot spot diagrams, transmission files, optical transfer
functions, line spread functions, energy distributions and beam
footprints. Generate distortion, astigmatism and field curvature plots
which are correct for all systems, even those with decentrations and
tilts! Use the user defined graphics primitives to plot lines, generate
axes and plot program generated data. Save these custom procedures on
disk in macros. Save any of the graphics in the plot library. Use the
"quick" plotting routines to get vital data plotted "fast"! Real time
plot generation. Examine what you have plotted with the DRAW command,
then add more to your plot and redisplay the updated plot with another
DRAW.
REFRACTIVE, REFLECTIVE AND DIFFRACTIVE SYSTEMS:
Roadrunner can model refractive, reflective and diffractive optical
elements and gratings. Diffractive elements can be refractive or
reflective gratings or HOES (with and without aspheric phase terms)
just like in CODE-V.
AFOCAL SYSTEMS:
Work with AFOCAL systems with ease. No need to use a "perfect" lens to
make an afocal system look like a focal system. This program converts
all output appropriately when the MODE is set to AFOCAL, even field
curvature and astigmatism. All FOCAL mode optimization operands have
equivalent AFOCAL representations for use in AFOCAL system
optimization. If you insist on using a PERFECT lens to do your AFOCAL
designs, we even provide one of these.
BEAM FOOTPRINTS:
Create footprints of beams on any surface. Calculate both beam
footprint areas and beam footprint solid angles.
STANDARD SURFACE TYPES:
Model flats, spheres, aspherics to 20th order, cylinders, and
anamorphic aspherics.
STANDARD MATERIAL TYPES:
Use the multi-manufacturer (Schott, Hoya, Ohara, Corning-France,
Chance-Pilkington and others) glass catalog, the user input refractive
indices, the user defined glass catalog, and of course, the REFL for
reflective surfaces and AIR for air. Define and use up to ten
wavelengths at a time. Most IR and UV materials are in the glass
catalog. The most complete glass catalogs available.
SPECIAL SURFACE TYPES:
Add special surface definitions to any standard lens database surface
type for compound results. There are several forms of polynomial
deformation surfaces and polynomial phase surfaces (Radial, Rectangular
and Zernike forms). There are Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs), and
rotationally symmetric and cylindrical FRESNEL surfaces. Take full
control with the user defined deformation and phase surfaces without
the use of a compiler. A second type of user defined surface has been
added which allows modeling noncontiguous surfaces. The program has a
special surface type and supporting commands which make it possible to
model grazing incidence reflective telescope systems. There are user
input SAG, PHASE and APODIZATION grid surfaces. There is also a user
defined surface, defined via a user modifiable FORTRAN subroutine.
There are user input PHASE, SAG and APODIZATION grid surfaces. There is
a rotationally symmetric cubic spline surface which may be attached to
a standard, rotationally symmetric surface.
UNITS: Work in inches, millimeters, centimeters or meters. Convert
angular output units from degrees to radians or tangents with a simple
command.
SOLVES and PIKUPS:
Control lens curvatures and thickness with paraxial ray trace based
solves in either the XZ or the YZ-plane. Concentricity and clear
aperture solves in the XZ or the YZ-plane can also control curvatures
and thickness. Establish automatic, updated links between parameters on
different surfaces using both multiplicative and additive constant
offsets. Use the powerful overall length thickness pickup and the pivot
point pickup.
CLEAR APERTURES AND OBSCURATIONS:
Establish circular, rectangular, elliptical, regular polygon and
racetrack shaped clear apertures and obscurations with tilt and
decenter capability. Explore the clear aperture and obscuration ERASES
as a powerful modeling tool. Place a decentered clear aperture on the
Reference Surface and automatically chief ray aim to the center of that
clear aperture. Flats on concave surfaces are available using the CLAP
command.
TILTS AND DECENTRATIONS:
Apply general Euler angle rotations in three dimensions to any surface.
Use one of two angle conventions available: pure right handed (as in
ZEMAX) and mixed angle (as in CODE V, ACCOS and OSLO). Apply tilts
"TILT", reverse tilts "RTILT", rev. tilts "TILT REV", automatic tilt
alignments to a chief ray, X and Y-decentrations, automatic
decentration alignments to a chief ray "TILT AUTO" and "TILT AUTOM",
bends "TILT BEN", decenter and return "TILT DAR" and full return "TILT
RET" capability. The "TILT" command can be augmented by an alternate
pivot position definition using the "PIVOT" command to rotate about an
arbitrary point. Roadrunner has the most complete and flexible set of
decentration and tilt commands of any optical design program.
FLEXIBLE RAY AIMING:
Ray aim to a "Reference Surface", to the aperture stop, or to surface
1. Automatic location of and aiming to the entrance or exit pupil. The
most complete and flexible ray aiming scheme in the industry. Set
telecentric aiming of paraxial and real rays when modeling telecentric
systems. Set "APLANATIC" reference surface ray aiming. Trace rays
through ultra wide angle systems (half angle 90 deg) with no special
settings as are required in other programs.
PARAXIAL AUTOMATIC CONDITIONS:
Set and hold magnification, entrance pupil diameter, object space
f-number, and object space numerical aperture.
SCALE THE ENTIRE LENS:
Use the scaling commands to scale the lens database, including data in
alternate configurations (zoom positions) and special surface data.
MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS (ZOOMS):
Have up to 5 alternate lens configuration or "zoom" positions in the
free distribution and 75 "zoom" positions with paid user support. Zoom
all lens database parameters, special surface parameters and some
general program parameters as well. Pickup lens data inside and across
configurations. Model and optimize scanning and zoom systems with ease.
PERFORM THERMAL ANALYSIS:
The effects of temperature and pressure may be easily modeled with the
THERM and PRESS commands. These commands may be "zoomed". Easily model
the behavior of light in gases other than air.
OUTPUT YOUR LENS:
The lens database may be output and displayed in a number of ways. It
may be output in a form so it can be re-read by the program. The
default prescription is easy to read. You can easily customize many
program output functions. Convert your prescriptions to be read by
other optical design programs. Convert Roadrunner prescriptions to
CODE-V format and input both ZEMAX and CODE-V prescriptions.
OFF THE SHELF DESIGNING:
In conjunction with a large and powerful lens library capability,
lenses may be added together to synthesize a new optical system. Using
the lenses listed in the manufacturer's (Edmund Scientific,
Melles-Griot, Newport, Rolyn and Spindler & Hoyer) lens catalogs, which
are included with the program, optical systems can be easily assembled
from "off the shelf" components and then fully analyzed.
SPECIAL DATA FITTING:
Use the SPFIT routines to fit data to functional forms. Compute glass
index coefficients. Apply fitting coefficients to a special surface
type and then ray trace through the resulting surface. This also
contains routines for automatically updating the user defined glass
catalog based on user input index data.
SPECTRAL ANALYSIS:
Use the SPECT capability to manipulate wavelength dependent data files.
Perform transmission analyses of optical systems. Determine spectral
weighting factors to use in optical transfer function calculations.
OPTIMIZATION:
Use the most flexible optimization configuration ever available in a
commercial optical design program. Build your own merit function from
hundreds of predefined operands. If you need an operand not provided in
our pre-defined list, just build it in a fast macro function using any
of the hundreds of program commands and "gettables" from the GET list.
Use lens database, paraxial ray based and real ray based operands with
equal ease. Optimize in multiple configurations. A large list of lens
database parameters are available for use as optimization variables,
including all 96 special surface coefficients. Six methods of damping
are provided for the Damped Least Squares solutions. Full control over
optimization is provided. The derivative matrix is accessible at all
times. Elements of the derivative matrix may be retrieved with the GET
command. The optimization is fully re-entrant. The value of the damping
factor is under complete user control. Updates can be made to the lens
database without starting a new "auto" run as in some other programs. A
direct, non damped solution method is available when needed. Two levels
of optimization merit function and variables definition may be saved
and reloaded. Macros may be used to prepare or save useful variables
and operand lists. Merit function constraints are implemented as
weighted operands. All operands may be corrected to a value, held to a
value, held greater than or equal to a value, held less than or equal
to a value or simply computed and displayed in a bypass mode. The
optimization techniques are always being tested and expanded to provide
the most powerful and flexible optimization techniques that can be
provided. Have up to 100000 variables and 100000 operands at a time.
Powell's Quadratically Convergent optimization methods is also
available as an optional optimization method. Paul Robb's acceleration
technique for use with damped least squares (DLS) is also available.
Variable constraints are held exactly in all cases. The program also
includes the Pseudo second derivative acceleration method as described
by D.C. Dilworth. Use the USER DEFINED optimization to optimize
anything!. All tolerance and optimization definitions are stored with
the lens database. An automatic damping factor calculator is available.
GAUSSIAN BEAM PROPAGATION:
The program has an extensive modeling and optimization capability with
respect to gaussian beams. This feature works and is accurate for
centered as well as tilted and decentered systems, even those
containing diffractive optical elements. It is based upon the real
differential ray trace.
TOLERANCE ANALYSIS:
The program has an extensive system of commands for generating a
sensitivity analysis, an inverse sensitivity analysis and a Monte-Carlo
type tolerance analysis for the current lens prescription. This
includes a chapter for the Reference Manual and an example in the
Tutorial. Special surface tilt (STILT), barrel tilt (BTILT), element
roll (ROLL), displacement (DISP) and alternate pivot point (PIVOT
qualifier) options are available from within automatic tolerancing.
These option are also available from the CMD level for interactive
tolerancing.
DIFFRACTION CAPABILITIES:
Diffraction based Complex Aperture Function, Optical Transfer Function,
Diffraction Based Point Spread Function analysis, encircled and
ensquared energy analysis and Pixel Linearity analysis. Decompose a
wave front into Zernike Polynomials and use the polynomial coefficients
for analysis or optimization. Tolerance using geometric or diffraction
MTF.
VERY WIDE FIELDS OF VIEW:
Advanced ray aiming techniques allow tracing rays through systems with
fields of view in excess of 180.0 degrees with no special intervention
by the designer.
ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS:
Analysis of illumination systems.
GLOBAL SURFACE INSERTION:
Surfaces may be input in global as well as in local coordinate systems.
3D -DXF LENS DATABASE AND RAY OUTPUT:
The current lens and rays traced through it may now be output to a 3D
DXF file for later importation to CAD packages.
PART DRAWINGS:
Quick simple to use part drawing routine with full user customization.
MULTI-FOV GEOMETRICAL AND DIFFRACTION MTF:
Now do single or multiple field of view geometrical of diffraction
based MTF calculations and graphical display. Supports up to 10 field
of view positions using the FLDS command to define multiple field of
view positions in the lens database.
USER DEFINED FUNCTION PLOTTING:
The user can construct plots of functions of an independent variable
using the user defined plotting routines.
LENS DATABASE TRANSLATION:
The user can output Roadrunner optical prescriptions into CODE-V type
sequence files which can then be input into CODE-V. The user can output
Roadrunner optical prescriptions into ACCOS-V type data files which can
then be input into ACCOS-V. The user can also import both CODE-V and
ZEMAX lens databases from CODE-V sequence files or ZEMAX (.ZMF) files
into Roadrunner. These translations are performed with the "LENO CV" ,
"LENO AC", "CV2PRG" and "ZMX2PRG" commands.
TEST PLATE FITTING:
The user can fit their designs to an extensive list of test plates.
SURFACE COATINGS:
The user define surface coatings and diffraction grating efficiencies
which are used in ray energy tracking.
Richard F.L.R.Snashall
> Nothing gets lost.
> Searching the web I found this:
>
> --------------------
>
> OSOD
> Open Source Optical Design
> Read about it in OSOD.TXT, then download it by double clicking on
> OSOD.EXE. Version 1.0 now available.
>
> Copyright © Acme Optics 2000-2001, All rights reserved.
>
> --------------------
>
> Download from
>
> ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/Windows/optics/OSOD.EXE
>
How is that version related to the one I have from 2001?
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Version 4.20d dated (1/22/2001)
Maybe it is Roadrunner 4.20d,
but I'm not sure.
Joseph Gwinn
save...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Nothing gets lost.
> Searching the web I found this:
>
> --------------------
>
> OSOD
> Open Source Optical Design
> Read about it in OSOD.TXT, then download it by double clicking on
> OSOD.EXE. Version 1.0 now available.
>
> Copyright © Acme Optics 2000-2001, All rights reserved.
>
> --------------------
>
> Download from
>
> ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/Windows/optics/OSOD.EXE
>
> --------------------
One place to keep the OSOD source et al would be SourceForge. Thia ia
more or less standard in the open-source software community.
Joe Gwinn
Charles Attends
"Joseph Gwinn" <JoeG...@comcast.net> wrote
> One place to keep the OSOD source et al would be SourceForge. Thia ia
> more or less standard in the open-source software community.
I already suggested that!
Joseph Gwinn
"Charles Attends" <inc...@cette.adresse> wrote:
> "Joseph Gwinn" <JoeG...@comcast.net> wrote
>
> > One place to keep the OSOD source et al would be SourceForge. This is
> > more or less standard in the open-source software community.
>
> I already suggested that!
OK. I didn't notice it.
Greg
Greg
Jim Klein
>now where at sourceforge can osod be found?
>Greg
What is sourceforge and what is the link to it?
I searched for sourceforge and only found what looked like a
commercial site.
Jim Klein
Jim Klein
I found it but it is unclear how someone would upload OSOD if they had
it. Mind you, I would not care one way or the other if someone
uploaded and old version of my program there (under any name I used
like KDP, Roadrunner or ODP), even if they included source. I can't do
it but I guess anyone else could. I sure would not object and I doubt
anyone else could legally object.
Jim Klein