How to use the Ewald Sphere to determine the support of the 3D aperture of a brightfield microscope under coherent illumination.

#optics #microscopy

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A tiny portion of the deep universe.
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I've completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10
A little late, but here's my solution: github.com/aledegano/ad...

I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8
Here's my solution (not too shabby today :D )
github.com/aledegano/ad...

I've completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5
Today's solution: github.com/aledegano/ad...
Are goto statements considered harmful in Go as well? 🤔

An important thing I learned when writing my own ray tracer for #optics design is that a 3D ray tracer is useless without also having a paraxial ray tracer. I started with a 3D ray trace algo, but spent all my time on the paraxial algos instead 😜

kmdouglass.github.io/cherry/

I've completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4
with much much pain and sweat...
There it is my abomination of a solution: github.com/aledegano/ad... sigh...

I've completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 here's my solution: github.com/aledegano/ad... !

I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2
there it is my solution: github.com/aledegano/ad...

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

There it is: github.com/aledegano/ad...

I'm gonna tell you about a cool HVAC thing which is common in commercial buildings and I kinda wish we'd see move into the residential side:

The economizer.

Commercial buildings have weird heating and cooling loads. And my office certainly counts.

A few #MTGJumpstart pack pair nicknames for when you get them:

⭐ Copied (R) + Bookworms (U) = Late Homework
⭐ Landfall (G) + Pirates (U) = X Marks the Spot
⭐ Wizards (U) + Of the Coast (U) = Ruining the Game

See the full pack contents: magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...