BLViewer (BeamLine Viewer): A tool for 3D representation of an optical system

Introduction

BLViewer is a software tool to create interactive 3D representations of optical systems. An optical system is composed by a source and one or several optical elements arranged sequentially. BlViewer has been design for displaying optical systems ray-traced by SHADOW. It is distributed as an application of the SHADOWVUI interface to SHADOW, available in the XOP package.

Manual

See the BLViewer user guide (in PDF format). The example files described there can be found in this directory.

Image Gallery

Some views of optical systems created with BLViewer can be found in the BLViewer image gallery.

Installation

BLViewer is distributed as a part of SHADOWVUI.