Optics Simulator 4+

Seems Very Limited

I appreciate that someone probably put a lot of time into making this software and I want to hedge my criticism by noting that this might be a useful tool for some applications. However, it is so limited that it wouldn’t be all that hard to achieve the same simulations with a few real lenses/prisms/light sources. As far as lenses are concerned, you are limited to double-convex and double-concave. Also, the lenses do not change shape when you change the focal length, which makes for a rather confusing and potentially misleading demo. I was hoping to be able to virtually assemble lenses of various sizes/shapes/focal lengths and get a general sense of the size and relative proportions of the various elements in a design. As it is, I cannot even select the types of elements that I would like to use.