LensForge 1.2.3

LensForge 1.2.3 is a very tractable and powerful 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. Support
   • E-mail support
   • New features
3. Surface shapes
   • Planar
   • Spherical
   • General conicoid
   • Aspheric
   • Bivariate polynomial
   • Biconic
   • Grating
   • Kinoform
   • Toric
4. Sources: Vignetting factors
5. Automation
   • Solves and pickups
   • Sliders
   • Merit functions
   • Optimization
   • Coordinate system control: ZEMAX-style coordinate break
6. Glasses
   • Extensive built-in library
   • Import glasses from AGF files
   • Define new glasses
   • Plot index vs wavelength
7. Graphics
   • Planar view
   • Solid view
   • CAD file export (DXF)
   • Queriable plots
   • Multiplot
8. 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
   • Energy capture
   • Intensity fan
9. Aberration analysis: Seidel aberrations
   • Spherical aberration
   • Coma
   • Astigmatism
   • Field curvature
   • Distortion
   • Axial color
   • Lateral color
10. File Formats (for supported surface types)
    • CODE V (read)
    • OSLO (read)
    • ZEMAX (read and write)
    • ZEMAX glass catalogs
    • ZEMAX lens catalogs

Requirements:

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