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Generalized ray tracing method for the calculation of the peripheral refraction induced by an ophthalmic lens
A 2015 journal article describes a generalized ray-tracing technique for computing peripheral refraction produced by ophthalmic lenses. The excerpt identifies the publisher as SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) and lists the content type as a journal article.
Categories: science-and-space, technology
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- Confidence
- 7/10
- Geographic reach
- 1/10
- Global importance
- 2/10
- Impact magnitude
- 2/10
- Positivity
- 5/10
- Urgency
- 1/10
Why it matters
The paper provides a computational method for quantifying how eyeglass lenses alter peripheral refraction, a topic of interest for optics research and lens design.

