BOG Online Tutorial and Documentation

version 1.0

Welcome to BOG!

This online tutorial and documentation will help you to get started with BOG, the Better Optimizer for GemRay. The program is very simple to install and use, and you should be able to derive useful results from BOG within a few minutes. Understanding and taking full advantage of the program will take somewhat longer, but this will be time well spent.

Rather than read through the entire documentation, you should try following the Quick Start Tutorial.

Thanks for trying BOG, and I hope you find it helpful.

DOCUMENTATION Quick Jump

Installing BOG
Quick Start Tutorial
  PlayPen Tutorial
  Tilt Performance Tutorial
  Merit Function Mapper Tutorial

How BOG Optimization works
Merit Function and Optimization Targets
Clarification of the Tilt Performance Optimization Target

What to do with the results...

BOG FAQ
Troubleshooting BOG
Known bugs, change log, and wish list for future versions

NEW: About Weighting Factors

NEW: Clarification of the Dispersion Optimization Target

Acknowledgements


Documentation maintained by Tom Herbst. Last modified 22-Nov-2002