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  2. Lenticular lens - Wikipedia

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    A lenticular lens is an array of lenses, designed so that when viewed from slightly different angles, different parts of the image underneath are shown. [ 1][ 2][failed verification – see discussion] The most common example is the lenses used in lenticular printing, where the technology is used to give an illusion of depth, or to make images ...

  3. Lenticular printing - Wikipedia

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    Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses (a technology also used for 3D displays) are used to produce printed images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as they are viewed from different angles. Examples include flip and animation effects such as winking eyes, and modern advertising graphics whose ...

  4. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    The first widely-available fisheye lens for 35mm cameras was the Fisheye-Nikkor 8 mm f /8 from Nikon, released in 1962, which produced circular images similar to those popularized by the LIFE photographers; [71] that lens served as the "eye" of the HAL 9000 computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, [72] although scenes depicting HAL's point ...

  5. Optical lens design - Wikipedia

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    Optical lens design is the process of designing a lens to meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and manufacturing limitations. Parameters include surface profile types (spherical, aspheric, holographic, diffractive, etc.), as well as radius of curvature, distance to the next surface, material type and optionally tilt and decenter.

  6. History of optics - Wikipedia

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    History of optics. Modern ophthalmic lens making machine. Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians, followed by theories on light and vision developed by ancient Greek philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term ...

  7. Post Falls, Idaho - Wikipedia

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    Post Falls, Idaho. / 47.712; -116.948. Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the gateway city to North Idaho on I-90 just west of Coeur d'Alene and east of Spokane, Washington. The population was 38,485 at the 2020 census, [3] making it Idaho's ninth-largest city and the second largest city in North Idaho behind ...

  8. Google Glass - Wikipedia

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    Website. google .com /glass. Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a brand of smart glasses developed and sold by Google. It was developed by X (previously Google X), [ 9 ] with the mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. [ 1 ] Google Glass displays information to the wearer using a head-up display. [ 10 ]

  9. Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 - Wikipedia

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    The Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 is one of the largest relative aperture ( fastest) lenses in the history of photography. [ 1] The lens was designed and made specifically for the NASA Apollo lunar program to capture the far side of the Moon in 1966. [ 2][ 3][better source needed][ 4] Stanley Kubrick used these lenses when shooting his film ...