• A complete Visual User Interface for SHADOW (SHADOWVUI). It includes BLViewer, an interactive tool for designing in 3D your optical system.
• A library of IDL routines to perform SHADOW post-processing (graphics, histograms, etc.). It is also suitable for performing SHADOW loops, etc. This library is the core of SHADOWVUI. The IDL source core is available by request.
• Asymmetric wiggler: how to simulate a asymmetric wiggler with SHADOW.
• Waviness: A new method to treat the waviness or slope errors of the optical surfaces.

Other interesting documents we prepared:

• The very basics of SHADOW
• Tutorials on XOP and SHADOW
• Roughness: A small document explainig the use of the mirror's roughness with SHADOW. An example workspace file (example_roughness.ws) is available for ShadowVUI. See also this paper by Sangeet Singh et al.
• Global Optimization: (obsolete document) an attempt we made to incorporate a Global Optimizer on SHADOW. It either uses Genetic Algorithms or Simulating Annealing.
• Running SHADOW under UNIX at ESRF (Obsolete PostScriptdocument, but still useful for a very basic description of our IDL library).
• ESRF Undulator: how to create an undulator source with SHADOW. A particular example for the ESRF. (This example does not use any user interface.)