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issues with parabolic or hyperbolic mirrors #45

Open chbergmann opened 3 months ago

chbergmann commented 3 months ago

mirrors made with parabolic or hyperbolic curves are having issues with reflections. I did not see that sort of behavior with flat surfaces or circle/ellipse based surfaces. I guess a picture is a 1000 words, so there we are Parabola test

chbergmann commented 3 months ago

The Optics workbench uses the OpenCascade library to calculate the intersection points between a ray and the curves or surfaces. In some cases it does not return intersection points for hyperbolic or parabolic curves. The problem has to be fixed inside the openCascade library.