Help tracing realistic light paths through a hand-drawn sequence of six lenses
Hello all,
I am trying to create a simple visual diagram showing how light would travel through a row of six lenses of different shapes.
I have a hand-drawn image with six lenses in sequence. What I want to show is not an imagined path, but a roughly realistic ray trace. In other words, I want the lines to change direction only at each air–glass or glass–air interface, consistent in principle with refraction, rather than curving freely between surfaces.
More specifically, I would like to show:
- a set of five incoming horizontal rays entering from the left
- the way each ray is refracted at each lens surface
- the full ray paths carried through the whole six-lens sequence
- the rays kept on the diagram as much as possible, so the cumulative effect of the different lens shapes can be seen visually
At this stage I am not looking for a high-precision optical design solution, but for a physically plausible educational sketch based on the lens shapes shown. If needed, a simplified assumption such as a common refractive index for all lenses would be acceptable, unless the drawing implies a better approach.
My questions are: Can you draw a rough sketch and upload it?