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 # TurbulenceSim_v1Public
 [Description]
+
+This repository contains the code for the following paper:
+
+Nicholas Chimitt and Stanley H. Chan "Simulating anisoplanatic turbulence by sampling intermodal and spatially correlated Zernike coefficients," Optical Engineering 59(8), Aug. 2020
+
+How to use:
+
+    There are two example files provided, the "TiltOnly.py" file, and the "v1_sim_example1.py" files. The tilt-only file is simpler, yet the v1_sim_example1 offers that described in our work. The v1_sim_example1 is a documented typical usage case.
+    
+    The "utilities.py" file forms the main body of the functionality, calling upon "motion_compensate.py" and "integrals_spatial_corr.py" as needed. The functions therein are documented to help in their interpretability.
+
+Packages included
+
+    We use a function to simplify some indexing "nollToZernInd" (Tim van Werkhoven, Jason Saredy; https://github.com/tvwerkhoven/libtim-py/blob/master/libtim/zern.py)
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+We would also point those interested in this file to use this version, which offers more flexibility and ease of use than its MATLAB counterpart.
+
+If you find our work helpful in your research, please consider citing our paper
+
+
+@article{chimitt_chan_sim,
+author = {Nicholas Chimitt and Stanley H. Chan},
+title = {{Simulating anisoplanatic turbulence by sampling intermodal and spatially correlated Zernike coefficients}},
+volume = {59},
+journal = {Optical Engineering},
+number = {8},
+publisher = {SPIE},
+pages = {1 -- 26},
+keywords = {atmospheric turbulence, simulator, anisoplanatism, Zernike polynomials, spatially varying blur, Turbulence, Point spread functions, Optical engineering, Wave propagation, Optical transfer functions, Atmospheric propagation, Computer simulations, MATLAB, Visualization},
+year = {2020},
+doi = {10.1117/1.OE.59.8.083101},
+URL = {https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.59.8.083101}
+}