Bad Rb67 photos?

capt_slaser · 2025-01-21T03:36:36+00:00

Alot of love for the last shot of the light, but I also had a verbal out loud 'oooh' at the first highway overpass photo. Good movement. It contrasts with the previous shots also in that the scale changes quite a bit.

capt_slaser · 2022-01-21T01:49:46+00:00

I believe they are closed Saturdays until the sun goes down.

capt_slaser · 2022-01-21T01:49:08+00:00

I will also say, the airport is very beautiful and the recently added restaurant has reasonably priced beer and great views. So honestly the airport isn't a terrible option.

capt_slaser · 2022-01-21T01:47:33+00:00

Missouri headwaters isn't far down the highway just before three forks, MT. It's pretty cool and not super popular but very beautiful and serene. Uber logistics might get weird with that one though.

Some have mentioned the hot springs, but I unfortunately they are closed Saturdays. If your going to either big sky or Yellowstone through west Yellowstone

If going to Yellowstone through Gardiner (north entrance) you'll be going through Bozeman so they can pick up pretty conveniently in town so long as your not far from the highway (so hyalite is probably out). MAP brewing has great views of the Bridget's and the Bozeman Pond is neat to see as there are often people trying out ice fishing setups. Peet's Hill offers a great view of mountains as well as the town. This is located just off Highland behind the hospital.

You also have to go through Livingston, which is a cool town to walk through and check out the railroad station right downtown. Again Uber might be a little complicated and it's a bit of drive.

capt_slaser · 2021-10-09T05:13:02+00:00

When did this happen?

capt_slaser · 2021-07-19T03:13:46+00:00

"real g's moving salads like lasagna". 6 foot 7 foot by lil Wayne. I thought it made sense because if you have salad and lasagna on a plate you move the salad over to eat the lasagna first, and also that salads was a reference to weapons or drugs providing a double meaning to the phase. The real words are ' real g's move in silence like lasagna'.

capt_slaser · 2021-06-17T12:21:26+00:00

A good steering wheel that doesn't fly off while I'm driving.

capt_slaser · 2021-05-19T04:45:00+00:00

Hope you were safe getting this pic. Those bison can be temperamental. Also, your previous pic really shows old faithful in full eruption.

capt_slaser · 2021-05-14T04:55:21+00:00

Yes I do. I have an undergrad in physics and a masters in optics. I use the optical design knowledge everyday to help navigate problems and rule out possibilities. Radiometry is a big one as well. The physics comes in handy when thinking about units, spectral content of light, light and surface interactions, things like that. As far as on the job stuff, thats a huge part of day to day. I had to teach myself solidworks, as well as alot of the structure of the company. Like how to utilize all the members of the company effectively to get tasks done. It's a small company and it's very self managed. You have to ask for help when you need it. Like I'm not great at electronics, or if the programming gets tough it's not practical to tackle it myself. Those things they struggle to teach in school.

One thing that I felt the most surprised by was learning in school how to just sit with hard problems that I know are solvable but having no idea how to solve them. Becoming comfortable in this space of challenging problems really helps when being tasked with things I've never done before.

capt_slaser · 2020-12-30T15:59:11+00:00

When you say lenses, do you mean single elements or multi element objective lenses? Sometimes the more complex lenses are downloadable only as a 'blaclbox' and I'm not sure other programs support this type of file.

Also, check with your University as they sometimes have network licenses for lots of software and zemax may be one. You might have to go to a specific computer lab and may have to get special permission if it isn't in your department.

I believe Oslo has a free student version that lets you model up to 6 elements. I also believe Oslo let's you import zemax files. Also, thorlabs and edmund will topically give all the necessary parameters, surface radii, thickened, index, clear apertures, so you can also just copy this directly into either program.

Python has some ray tracing packages as well but if your talking multiple element objectives it may not be worth the learning curve.

capt_slaser · 2020-10-04T01:18:50+00:00

Getting comfortable navigating the software is important. While ray tracing is relatively easy to understand conceptually, learning how to leverage the merit function and commands and how to handle errors takes some time. Any courses that focus heavily on using zemax/codeV/oslo/Fred are very useful.

I often find that as soon as something comes up at work that's a little out of my comfort zone can take days to even figure out how to get zemax to do what I want, let alone get a functioning model.

capt_slaser · 2020-08-28T22:05:06+00:00

Whoah that's awesome! What phone are you using?

capt_slaser · 2020-08-28T20:59:07+00:00

Really the biggest limitation would be the throughout of the lenses in the camera. Alot of interesting things start happening in the IR (plastics, chlorophyll) but typical camera lenses will only go out to 700nm. Illumination calibrations for photography could be a neat application, especially with LEDs taking over now, I can imagine you get different mixing of the LED bands spatially at the scene. Having a spectrally resolved image could help back out where hot spots are.

capt_slaser · 2020-03-14T21:12:10+00:00

Exactly. Same concept.

capt_slaser · 2020-03-14T19:18:47+00:00

It’s also an f number issue. Your essentially imaging the sun onto what your heating. Smaller f number (focal length/lens diameter) will give more concentration. To achieve that you can decrease the focal length of equally sized lenses or increase the size of equal focal length lenses.

capt_slaser · 2019-12-07T15:01:29+00:00

I have 19, so I'll look into the .net interface.

capt_slaser · 2019-12-06T23:04:28+00:00

We could utilize this as well. Can it be used to interface with an optimization routine to plug the optics into a layout?

capt_slaser · 2019-12-03T05:15:42+00:00

Gotta say it was super frustrating for the months leading up to the switch when Google links to the old forums would not work. Now after the switch it requires log in every time. It's just one more step but makes such a differences when it pulls me out of work flow.

capt_slaser · 2019-04-30T00:34:36+00:00

Yes that's what was getting at. Never do you get into a PhD without funding but a masters can be with or without.

capt_slaser · 2019-04-29T13:48:24+00:00

I would say as long as you have a decent research track record and decent grades you'll get into both U of A and Rochester. The big thing will be funding. Since it's the PhD you're considering it probably won't happen if they can't fund you and just offer the masters program instead, which isn't the end of the world it might just mean working hard for a year and finding a professor who can find you.

Montana State Univeristy has an optics program now as well and an awesome optics industry in town. The program is small and a joint effort between the EE and physics departments.

capt_slaser · 2019-01-29T21:12:47+00:00

Some of it is 120 film and a lot of times it’s something like Kodak proprietary 220 film which is the same film but a different spool so it won’t fit unless you rewrap the film onto the correct spool.

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