M-TRACE: a MATLAB toolkit for animated raytracing based on scalable vector graphics illustration
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Modern optical design and simulation software, while both powerful and feature-rich, requires significant training investment for effective use, even for simple optical design tasks. By contrast, software for two-dimensional (2D) non-sequential raytracing, while sufficient for many optical design tasks and popular for educational purposes, has remained without the benefit of mature computer-aided design (CAD) technologies that are now a key feature of software dedicated to three-dimensional (3D) optical design. To overcome this limitation, we introduce M-TRACE—an open source toolkit for non-sequential 2D raytracing with scripting-based customization and animation capabilities implemented in MATLAB. This toolkit allows users to specify optical designs using tools compatible with free-form 2D illustration via scalable vector graphics (SVG), analogous to the integration of 3D CAD technologies with enterprise optical design software. The intuitive and precise drawing features of SVG illustration software (e.g., Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape) allow for a straightforward means for the creation of system designs. We intend M-TRACE to complement the spectrum of available optical design software for research, development, and education, specifically targeting design cases requiring rich visualization and/or rapid exploration.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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