LensForge 1.1.16 (March 25, 2008)
- Improvements:
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Image browse button added to Canvas feature.
- Bug fixes:
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Prescription listing updated prematurely during lens rebuild.
LensForge 1.1.15 (March 17, 2008)
- Improvements:
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Added point of interest display to Index Fitter, Index Plotter, and Merit Plotter.
LensForge 1.1.14 (February 28, 2008)
- Improvements:
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Added multiplot option to spot diagram.
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Added online help for spot diagram.
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Test ray (planar and solid view) listing
improved.
- Bug fixes:
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Airy disk was invisible on spot diagram.
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Some paraxial calculations broken by 1.1.10.
LensForge 1.1.13 (February 26, 2008)
- Improvements:
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Added schott-10-10-2007b catalog to glass library
(includes LITHOSIL-Q fused silica).
- Bug fixes:
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Seidel aberration calculation corrected for refractive surfaces after mirrors.
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Conrady chromatic aberration coefficients implemented for catadioptric systems.
LensForge 1.1.12 (February 24, 2008)
- Bug fixes:
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Seidel aberration calculation now includes conic constant
for standard surface (formerly only for aspheres).
LensForge 1.1.11 (February 23, 2008)
- Bug fixes:
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Seidel aberration calculation now handles mirrors.
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Aberration calculation works when there is a surface
other than the image surface at the paraxial image plane.
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File name in listings now updates with Save As...
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Change from MIRROR to glass name no longer needs to pass
through intermediate state of a blank name.
LensForge 1.1.10 (February 15, 2008)
- Improvements:
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Spot diagram can now plot ray direction versus position.
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Encircled or ensquared energy: spiral pattern more uniform.
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Encircled or ensquared energy: subtract spot centroid option.
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Radial fans (+x, -x, +y and -y) for layout views.
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Improvements to OSLO file import.
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Better solid view shapes for apertured surfaces.
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View zooming "undo" now independent of lens change undo.
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View browsing buttons on toolbars for solid and planar view.
LensForge 1.1.9 (January 14, 2008)
- Bug fixes:
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Undo would crash if Merit Plot window was open.
- Improvements:
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Canvas feature: image file may be dragged to planar view itself.
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Canvas feature: last image calibration is remembered.
LensForge 1.1.8 (November 14, 2007)
- New features:
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Reads CODE V SEQ files with private glasses.
LensForge 1.1.7 (October 15, 2007)
- Bug fixes:
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Closing then re-opening index fitter would crash.
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Initial display in planar view was delayed.
LensForge 1.1.6 (October 5, 2007)
LensForge 1.1.5 (September 17, 2007)
- New features:
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Polynomial surface.
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Parameter import and export:
- Drag and drop of text or files
- Copy and paste
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Test ray now displays after-trace quantities:
- Position
- Momentum
- Orientation
- Transfer matrix
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Image preview display on the lens catalog browser.
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Improvements to solid view:
- Rotate about the last selected surface
- "Zoom to Fit" on last selected surface
- Rotation to axis alignment is animated
- Zoom is animated
- Filled or wire frame display
- "One click" summoning of Surfaces window
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Wavelength specified in nanometers.
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Added value display to merit function plot.
- Bug fixes:
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Parameter solves were not saved to lfg file.
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Crash when merit function plot window closed.
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"Include focus" checkbox on optimizer window did not work.
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Changes to circular obscuration did not immediately register.
LensForge 1.1.4 (July 29, 2007)
- New features:
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Vignetting factors.
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Export graph data to other programs.
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Graphs display selected data values.
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Transpose any graph axes.
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Automatic updates.
LensForge 1.1.3 (May 21, 2007)
- Bug fixes:
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OPD calculation fixed for infinite conjugate off-axis case.
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Fixed crash when switching to "total thickness" solve.
LensForge 1.1.2 (February 4, 2007)
- Bug fixes:
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Asphere ray tracing algorithm improved for
high field angles.
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Sliders "delta" parameter remembered through undo.
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Fixed the "using an index of refraction
as a glass name" feature.
LensForge 1.1.1 (January 31, 2007)
- Bug fixes:
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Optimization no longer always generates an exception.
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Merit functions now save residual filter in file.
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Meritoid initial values improved.
LensForge 1.1 (January 29, 2007)
- New features:
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Improved built-in help.
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Can move surfaces graphically.
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Merit functions.
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Optimization.
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Plotting merit functions.
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OPD plot can use length units.
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Seidel aberrations now include aspheric coefficients.
- Bug fixes:
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Airy disk on spot diagram works in object-referred mode.
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Better intelligence to remove glass conflicts.
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Improved responsiveness of parameter pickup dialog.
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OPD for image in refracting media.
LensForge 1.0.4 (August 15, 2006)
- New features:
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Distortion graph.
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Field curvature graph.
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Offense against sine condition (OSC') graph.
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Afocal analysis mode introduced.
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Telecentric object mode.
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Option to refer analysis results to object coordinates.
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Sliders window now lets you modify nominal value.
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Planar layout view generalized to non-axisymmetric systems.
- Bug fix:
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Focal length and exit pupil location for tilted systems.
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Improvements to solves.
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Coordinate break rotations changed to ZEMAX sign convention.
- Catalog update:
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Comes with the new version of the Edmund Optics stock lens catalog.
LensForge 1.0.3 (July 18, 2006)
- New features:
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Geometrical OTF plot.
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Geometrical thru-focus OTF plot.
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Geometrical encircled energy plot.
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Sliders.
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Command to flip (reverse order) surfaces.
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Command to close all open option panels.
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Added plastic materials to the built-in library.
LensForge 1.0.2 (June 3, 2006)
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Marginal ray solves that are independent of the pupil zone are now active before the stop.
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Visual feedback for inconsistent solve requests (like chief ray solves before the stop).
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Some inaccuracies in the solves are fixed.
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Added Hikari glass catalog to the built-in library.
LensForge 1.0.1 (May 30, 2006)
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Implementation of Paraxial image height field specification.
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Glasses used in the design are now saved in the lens file to make the file self-contained.
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Added Thorlabs stock lens catalog.
LensForge 1.0 (May 26, 2006)