Abstract
With global and local lens design optimization algorithms running on modern high-speed multi-core computers, highly optimized lens designs can be achieved quickly, even when started from scratch. Six years after two lens design experts compared a human designer's lens to what a global optimization algorithm can achieve, it is now time to revisit this classic lens design problem to demonstrate the level of performance that can be achieved with global optimization running on a state-of-the-art computer and no human designer intervention. Even though high-speed computers can iterate over many systems very quickly and converge on an optimized result, a human designer is still crucial in order to design the optimization approach and program the appropriate merit functions.
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