#rayoptics — Public Fediverse posts

I made a thing: a ray tracer in Python for geometrical optics. Commercial software is too expensive for my needs, other projects don't fulfil them, so DIY it is. I was hesitant to release the source code, given that it almost certainly will be scraped for AI training immediately, but the "black pill" talk by @andrewrk convinced me.

It's called tiny-tracer, as I had to think of Tiny dancer by Elton John, and I like the alliteration.

Link: https://codeberg.org/rjmoerland/tiny-tracer

WIP

#optics #rayoptics #python

I made a thing: a ray tracer in Python for geometrical optics. Commercial software is too expensive for my needs, other projects don't fulfil them, so DIY it is. I was hesitant to release the source code, given that it almost certainly will be scraped for AI training immediately, but the "black pill" talk by @andrewrk convinced me.

It's called tiny-tracer, as I had to think of Tiny dancer by Elton John, and I like the alliteration.

Link: https://codeberg.org/rjmoerland/tiny-tracer

WIP

#optics #rayoptics #python

I made a thing: a ray tracer in Python for geometrical optics. Commercial software is too expensive for my needs, other projects don't fulfil them, so DIY it is. I was hesitant to release the source code, given that it almost certainly will be scraped for AI training immediately, but the "black pill" talk by @andrewrk convinced me.

It's called tiny-tracer, as I had to think of Tiny dancer by Elton John, and I like the alliteration.

Link: https://codeberg.org/rjmoerland/tiny-tracer

WIP

#optics #rayoptics #python

I made a thing: a ray tracer in Python for geometrical optics. Commercial software is too expensive for my needs, other projects don't fulfil them, so DIY it is. I was hesitant to release the source code, given that it almost certainly will be scraped for AI training immediately, but the "black pill" talk by @andrewrk convinced me.

It's called tiny-tracer, as I had to think of Tiny dancer by Elton John, and I like the alliteration.

Link: https://codeberg.org/rjmoerland/tiny-tracer

WIP

#optics #rayoptics #python

This morning I had a fun moment when I discovered that sunlight reflected inside the dustbin in my office formed a very nice #caustic that is practically the classic schoolbook example of spherical #aberration. I sent the pictures to my office mate, who incidentally teaches ray #optics and we were amused about it with other colleagues this afternoon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration #physics #rayoptics

This morning I had a fun moment when I discovered that sunlight reflected inside the dustbin in my office formed a very nice #caustic that is practically the classic schoolbook example of spherical #aberration. I sent the pictures to my office mate, who incidentally teaches ray #optics and we were amused about it with other colleagues this afternoon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration #physics #rayoptics

This morning I had a fun moment when I discovered that sunlight reflected inside the dustbin in my office formed a very nice #caustic that is practically the classic schoolbook example of spherical #aberration. I sent the pictures to my office mate, who incidentally teaches ray #optics and we were amused about it with other colleagues this afternoon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration #physics #rayoptics

This morning I had a fun moment when I discovered that sunlight reflected inside the dustbin in my office formed a very nice #caustic that is practically the classic schoolbook example of spherical #aberration. I sent the pictures to my office mate, who incidentally teaches ray #optics and we were amused about it with other colleagues this afternoon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration #physics #rayoptics

This morning I had a fun moment when I discovered that sunlight reflected inside the dustbin in my office formed a very nice #caustic that is practically the classic schoolbook example of spherical #aberration. I sent the pictures to my office mate, who incidentally teaches ray #optics and we were amused about it with other colleagues this afternoon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_aberration #physics #rayoptics