Questions re: Optica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg5006] Questions re: Optica
- From: Fisherman <halasz at sprynet.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 02:25:51 -0400
- Organization: Sprynet News Service
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Anyone running Optica out there? Do I have things screwed up; or is this the slowest optical package on the market? For a 100 ray trace function, the kernel keeps asking for more RAM (I've got it up to 12MB), and after fifteen minutes or so, I lose my patience. Oh, it's using one of the package demos, a cylindrical light source reflecting into a parabolic mirror. While I'm on my rant, who or what writes the booklets? For function calls, say CircleOfRays[], they list the parameters in brackets as 'options', even in the glossary of terms. Couldn't they list what those options _are_, or should I put in something like CircleOfRays[air_conditioning, corinthian_leather]? Any help is much appreciated (can't get to a phone for the next two days during business hours). TIA; Fisherman.