LensForge 1.1.25

LensForge 1.1.25 is the most comprehensive, user friendly and fast premier lens design program for Mac OS X.

It is a tool for professional and amateur lens designers, experimental physicists, telescope makers, and others.

Major Features:

1. General features
   • Object-oriented foundation
   • Universal Binary
   • Macintosh native user interface
   • Drag and drop
2. E-mail support
3. Surface shapes
   • Planar
   • Spherical
   • General conicoid
   • Aspheric
   • Bivariate polynomial
4. Sources: Vignetting factors
5. Automation
   • Solves and pickups
   • Sliders
   • Merit functions
   • Optimization
6. Coordinate system control: ZEMAX-style coordinate break
7. Glasses
   • Extensive built-in library
   • Import glasses from AGF files
   • Define new glasses
   • Plot index vs wavelength
8. Graphics
   • Planar view
   • Solid view
   • CAD file export (DXF)
   • Queriable plots
   • Multiplot
9. Diagnostic plots
   • Ray fan
   • OPD fan
   • Distortion
   • Field curvature
   • OSC fan
   • Spot diagram
   • Geometrical OTF & MTF
   • Thru-focus GOTF & GMTF
   • Diffraction OTF & MTF
   • Huygens-Fresnel calculations
10. Aberration analysis: Seidel aberrations
    • Spherical aberration
    • Coma
    • Astigmatism
    • Field curvature
    • Distortion
    • Axial color
    • Lateral color
11. File Formats
    • (for supported surface types)
    • CODE V (read)
    • OSLO (read)
    • ZEMAX (read and write)
    • ZEMAX glass catalogs
    • ZEMAX lens catalogs

Enhancements:

• Improvements:
  • Energy capture plot.
  • Documentation for cutoff radial scan.
• Bug fixes:
  • Problems with paraxial trace mode.
  • Cutoff radial scan plot had axis troubles.
  • Polynomial surface now draws respecting its size parameters.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4
• G3/G4/G5/Intel processor