PLate OPtimizer: Difference between revisions

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{{ otheruses4|the CAD program, PLOP|the computer language conference group, PLoP|Pattern Languages of Programs}}

'''PLate OPtimizer''', or '''PLOP''' is a [[CAD]] program developed by [[telescope]] maker David Lewis, first described in 1999,<ref>{{Citation| last = Lewis| first = David| author-link = | title = | journal = Sky & Telescope| volume = | issue = June| pages = 132-135132–135| date = | year = 1999| url = | doi = | id = }}</ref> and used to simplify calculations needed in the design of [[Mirror#Instruments|mirror]] [[Mirror support cell|support cells]] for [[Reflectingreflecting telescope|reflecting telescopes]]s.<ref>{{cite web| last = Holm| first = Mark| authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Mirror Cells for Amateur Telescope Makers| work = | publisher = | date = | url = http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Holm/Plop_optimized_cells/index.html| format = | doi = | accessdate = May 3, 2009 }}

</ref> It was based on Toshimi Taki's 1993 program PLATE<ref>http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zs3t-tk/cell/cell.htm Taki's brief intro to cell design</ref>, however provides a simplified user interface, thus giving it wide acceptance among makers of large [[Dobsonian]] style amateur telescopes, with good support of mirrors as thin as two inches for a diameter of thirty inches.<ref>{{cite web| last = Anderson-Lee

| first = Jeff| authorlink =| coauthors = | title = Best of 18 and Over - A collection of plop cell designs

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==External Resourcesresources==

* [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jonah/18plus/p18.html A Study of 18-point Mirror Cell Optimization Using Varying Forces] Jeff Anderson-Lee, January 2003

* [http://www.davidlewistoronto.com/plop/ David Lewis authorlink]

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* [http://stellafane.org/misc/links.html Stellafane links page]

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