Akira Yabe - world class lens design
Akira Yabe is one of the worlds leading lens designers - evidenced by his consistant high [or top] placings in the International Lens Design Conference.
The site showcases some of his highly innovative design methods, illustrated with examples of his work, along with links to his technical papers.
Website: www.yabeopt.de
Owner: Akira Yabe
Technical notes
This is an elastic design with one or two columns. The design uses a simple colour scheme with some subtle gradients in the headers [h2 and h3]. Typography is simple - two fonts only.
Akira maintains the site himself - something that is easy to do, because of the separation of content and style [into style sheets - CSS]
For those interested - the background graphic at top left of each page is a cross section through a 14 element lens, showing some rays being traced through to the film plane.