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[davewa]

I'm now working on a program to demonstrate how lenses and mirrors work.  The program is tentatively called "Trace".  At the moment, about 50% of the user interface is coded and maybe 20% of the actual geometric optics ray tracing.  So I figure this will be my first activity of 2011.

[mavrothal]

That is really nice 
v 2, add a laser band! Galactic powers be ware

[davewa]

Here's another teaser, showing progress so far.  The user interface is about 50% done and the ray tracing algorithms work for lenses (but not mirrors).

[davewa]

Just a quick update:  I'm still working on this project but I can't devote as much time per week as I have now found employment again.  I'm currently projecting a beta release date of towards the end of February.

[davewa]

Still working on this.  The job's more complicated than I anticipated going in.  Even restricting the orientation of mirrors to 45-degree intervals and automatically setting lenses normal to the light path hasn't reduced the program complexity to a managible level -- I need to add some way to detect that the light is following an endless loop (e.g.: two mirrors facing each other).

Now estimating that the beta release will happen around the first of April.  Stay tuned.