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graealex/WaveDudeNext
Interactive 2D wave optics simulator. Turn any image into a refractive scene, add sources, watch waves refract, diffract and interfere. Probes, intensity maps, video export.
WaveDude Next is a Windows app that simulates 2D wave optics interactively. You place light sources and optical parts (lenses, mirrors, fibres, zone plates, even images used as refractive scenes) on a canvas and watch waves propagate, refract, diffract and interfere in real time. It shows the wave field and time-averaged intensity, records probes, runs on GPU or CPU, and exports video, images and data.
Why now: It is the newly released successor to Wave Dude 2D by Huygens Optics' Jeroen Vleggaar, opening and reproducing classic projects while adding built-in optical parts — which is what drew Hacker News attention.
Who it is for: Optics enthusiasts, physics educators, students and researchers who want to visualize and experiment with wave optics without writing simulation code.
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