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Listing of Zernike Standard polynomials in polar and cartesian coordinates

  • December 13, 2023
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Hi all.  It is frequently useful to have the Zernike Standard Polynomials available in Cartesian form, rather than just in the standard polar form.  The Cartesian forms can be used for a few different things, such as:

  • Generating or fitting data that is sampled on a uniform XY grid
  • Converting Zernikes into other surface shapes, such as Extended Polynomials.

Below, I’ve listed the first 37 Standard Zernike coefficients.  See the attached files for all 231 terms in text form and a Mathematica notebook that generates them. (See https://www.wolfram.com/player/ to read the .nb file.)

 

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Mark.Nicholson
Luminary
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Hey Erin, is there a formatting error on Z29 and onwards?


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  • December 15, 2023

Hi Mark.  I’m not seeing it!  Could you be more specific?!


Mark.Nicholson
Luminary
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Hi Erin,

Z29 and above seem to reference themselves in the definition.

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Mark.Nicholson
Luminary
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No wait I read it wrong...there’s no error. Sorry!


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