by 6yyyyyy on 2/9/24, 3:31 AM
by pasabagi on 2/9/24, 5:21 PM
Does anybody know of a good reference text that can teach you the basics of optics? I've been messing around making little projectors out of old camera lenses and cheap lenses from ali express, and I've had some success, but I have basically had to design everything so I can get all the lenses in the right place by moving them around, because I don't really understand the principles.
by spectaclepiece on 2/8/24, 11:46 PM
Found this when looking for ways to simulate light paths. Thought it's kind of neat and the kind of thing usually appreciated by the HN crowd.
by NKosmatos on 2/9/24, 1:19 PM
Thanks for this and also for the other comment!
I had seen these pages somewhere in the past but couldn't find them again. In my mind it was titled light simulation and that's why it didn't appear in the search.