From: Bernard Maugoust 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Bernard Maugoust 


In message ,
 waldo kitty  wrote:

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> Bernard Maugoust wrote:
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> if FigureXP is written to take advantage of the locality settings in your OS,
then it may very well be why it'll only take a comma

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> i'm sure that the author will be looking into it and working on a fix...

Changing my local settings for the decimal separator fixed it, as James
suggested. Thanks.

> >I'm going to rebuild a foucault tester and get some fresh numbers for an
> >8". The ones I wrote down years ago just seem too good to be true...
>
> what numbers do you have? it may be interesting to see them in several
programs... i've gotten to where i run the numbers thru
> several of the ones available... sixtests windows version, figure45,
> figureXP,

Here are FigureXP results: P-V wavefront error 1/31, transverse error 0.47,
strehl 0.997 and rms error 2.6.

SixTests results concur.

Diameter 204mm, FL 1075mm

> and i'll even take the surface output from sixtests  and run it thru jame's
> lerch's 3d visualization program... it does an ok job but still needs more
> work and refinement...

I could not get the 3D thingy to work, and to be honest I ain't very
bothered by that. Is there any piece of special software required (like a
version of DirectX or such thing)?

Cheers,

Bernard

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