Geopter is optical design software based on geometrical ray tracing.

Optical design has been aided by powerful computer and professional software such as CODE-V and Zemax, though those packages are too expensive for personal users.

There are increasing numbers of optics libraries. One disadvantage of such libraries is to require matured programming skills to master them.

This project aims to be in mid-ground. Geopter looks to be open-sorce and to provide an intuitive GUI allowing to focus on the optical design process.

Geopter doesn’t have its own “macro” language unlike Zemax and CodeV. Instead, the embedded Python console enables command scripting in order to automate complex procedures. The “app” and “osys” object provide the accesses to the application and the optical system respectively. For the moment, only a few functions have been implemented.

See more on GitHub.