Re: Comparative review of optical design software

From: Skywise (into_at_oblivion.nothing.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:12:18 -0000

skeckhardt@mmm.com (Steve Eckhardt) wrote in
news:cmshug$8ag$1@tuvok3.mmm.com:

> In article <q11kd.8016$tV4.544@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> no_emails@phone.me says...
>>
>>I need to write a comparative review of the major optical design
>>software offerings. I plan to include both sequential and
>>illumination-type ray tracers. Is there a single recent document or
>>website that gives a tabular list of facilities, prices and annual
>>maintenance fees, or do I have to write to all the vendors one by one?
>>
>>Brian
>
> Brian,
> I did a comparison of illumination programs (ASAP & TracePro) back in
> 1998.
> You might find the features checklists helpful, although they are
> seriously out of date. It's in SPIE vol 3296, pp. 53-61

Just a thought here, but now that you have an older comparison, do
your own independant comparison (yes, calling all the vendors) and
then you can also show trends over time.

Brian 

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