Marek Peca

> (..) The textbook approach means that it almost provides cookbook guidance for writing code. > > In particular, it describes coordinate systems and issues with phase pretty well. Thanks...

> With just the quickest of looks, there are some design decisions being made that may have a major impact on how easy it will be to add polarization later...

Hello, > (..) The issue I am concerned about is not the pruning of rays to those of interest, but that the bookkeeping of the polarization characteristics along the ray....

> But how will it be tested? Do you all have polarization systems with known responses that the OpticSim implementation could be compared to? I think that a plan-parallel plate...

Just confirming I also got the book, starting to look.

I have briefly looked into the formalism of "Polarized Light and Optical Systems" by Chipman, Lam and Young. I welcome the WCS of P matrix. However, the formalism seems to...

> I'm going to go silent while I dig into this. My current understanding of the approach by Chipman is that the results from characterizing the optical system can then...

@BrianGun @mattderstine > I created a new branch (#276) for this issue and have started modifying the code to add polarization information to OpticalRay. In the new system you create...

Dear @mattderstine > Still working but some first impressions. Either method works fine for partially polarized light as long as there is no depolarizing elements in the system. It's just...

Dear @mattderstine Let me concentrate only to a small but fundamental subset of what you wrote: > The Jones approach is actually the more general approach for a raytrace. It...