Conoscopic figures of optically active crystals are described by the formulas for the intensity of light transmitted by a plate located between arbitrarily oriented polarizer and analyzer. The differences in the behavior of optically active and inactive crystals and also of right- and left-handed crystals are established. The corresponding computations and the simulation of conoscopic figures are performed using the Mathematica-4.1 package of computer programs.
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