Full Version: The meridional plane view.

The meridional plane view.

In Optics in the past, The meridional plane was used to illustrate and design optical lenses. The meridional plane is in a Right Hand 3D axis system. MoI uses a Right Hand axis system as well.

The meridional z-axis (mz-axis) shows up on the paper or screen from left to right. The mr-axis shows up from bottom to top.

To show this meridional plane in MoI Top View, I propose plotting the optical layout by assignment as follows:

MoI x-axis is assigned the mz values.
MoI y-axis is assigned the mx values of zero.
MoI z-axis is assigned the mr values.

References:

See post #3:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/481326-meridional-and-sagittal-planes-mirrors/

https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/optomech/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/2016/10/toc_ch6.pdf

- Brian

Unless the MoI axi can be renamed.
https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9258.2
So for personal use, change x,y,z to z,x,y in the options view menu, for a meridional Front View.

The 3D view can be rotated to get the axi lined up to meridional, but Front view does not match.

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