# Tracing 'A Pencil of Rays' with Katsumoto Ikeda - Ep 4 - Rays and Waves

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Podcast: [Rays and Waves](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942)
Published: 2025-03-25T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves/episodes/Tracing-A-Pencil-of-Rays-with-Katsumoto-Ikeda---Ep-4---Rays-and-Waves-e30k3dh
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Duration seconds: 3035

## Resource

In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak to Katsumoto Ikeda. Kats runs a brilliant webpage about optical design called “A Pencil of Rays” (https://www.pencilofrays.com/). He has worked as an optical designer for well over a decade. and is now the Application Engineer Manager at Ansys in Japan. Join Daniel, Steven, and Kats in a riveting conversation about optical design. If you like the show, tell your friends about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! If you want to get in touch, shoot us an email on rays.and.waves.podcast@gmail.com Intro music is Good Vibe by Twisterium. Thanks for making sweet music!

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