Associated Western Universities summer graphics project: Volume 3, Optics

This document is a collection of texts to accompany computer-animated movies that were developed during the summers of 1984-1986 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by faculty members visiting from six universities. The project entitled ''Computer and Computer Graphic Applications in Engineering Education'' was funded by The American Western Universities, Inc., and the US Department of Energy. The goal of the project is to promote the use of computers and computer graphics in science and engineering education through the development of software for interactive modeling and graphical display of appropriate problems and the production of computer-generated films for displaying physical phenomena. The project brings together physics and engineering faculty to produce computer-animated videotapes of ideas and processes that are very difficult to describe in lecture, but would benefit greatly from an animated representation. Examples are given in Optics.