Understanding Functional Optics Through Graphical Notation
By
marcosh
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Summary
This article provides an introductory explanation of functional optics using a graphical notation approach to make the concept more accessible. The author aims to simplify understanding of functional optics by avoiding complex implementation details, library-specific jargon, and obscure documentation that typically make the topic difficult to learn. The approach uses visual representations (Mondrian-inspired graphics) to explain the core concepts without getting bogged down in technical implementation specifics.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI personally think that functional optics should be a really easy concept to grasp, but currently learning them is harder than it should be mostly due to library implementation details, quite obscure documentation and an exotic usage of weird symbols.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will introduce and use a graphical notation to
In this post I'd like to try to discuss what functional optics are, without going too much into why they are so cool, and you should use them, or how they are implemented and should be used with a specific language and library.
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