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  2. History of optics - Wikipedia

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    He believed that Aphrodite made the human eye out of the four elements and that she lit the fire in the eye which shone out from the eye making sight possible. If this were true, then one could see during the night just as well as during the day, so Empedocles postulated an interaction between rays from the eyes and rays from a source such as ...

  3. High-speed photography - Wikipedia

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    Muybridge's photographic sequence of a race horse galloping, first published in 1878.. High-speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 69 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive ...

  4. Foveon - Wikipedia

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    Foveon was previously known as Foveonics. The name is derived from the fovea of the human eye, which enables sharp imaging while reading or watching television. George Gilder wrote The Silicon Eye, which tells the story of Foveon and its founders.

  5. Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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    Almost every major camera manufacturer enables some form of chromatic aberration correction, both in-camera and via their proprietary software. Third party software tools such as PTLens are also capable of performing complex chromatic aberration appearance minimization with their large database of cameras and lens.

  6. Optical coating - Wikipedia

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    Dielectric phase-correction prism coatings are applied in a vacuum chamber with maybe 30 different superimposed vapor coating layers deposits, making it a complex production process. In a roof prism without a phase-correcting coating, s-polarized and p-polarized light each acquire a different geometric phase as they pass through the upper prism.

  7. Strabismus - Wikipedia

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    Strabismus is a vision disorder in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. The eye that is pointed at an object can alternate. The condition may be present occasionally or constantly.

  8. Maddox rod - Wikipedia

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    The strength of the prism is increased until the streak of the light passes through the centre of the prism, as the strength of the prism indicates the amount of deviation present. The Maddox rod is a handheld instrument composed of red parallel plano convex cylinder lens , which refracts light rays so that a point source of light is seen as a ...

  9. Polarimeter - Wikipedia

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    Modern automatic polarimeter with touchscreen and camera image of filled sample cell. Fully automatic polarimeters are now widely used and simply require the user to press a button and wait for a digital readout. Fast automatic digital polarimeters yield an accurate result within a few seconds, regardless of the rotation angle of the sample.