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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 19:02:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Calvin Chu <diavolo@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Magnifying glass
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On Wed, 27 Jul 1994, Robert Goemans wrote:
> >Physics states that thickness does matter for lenses. (hence, different
> >thickness eyeglasses).
>
> Actually, it's geometry that states that thickness matters for lenses.
You got me there! I was thinking of the distance between the two
interface layers... I suppose that's geometry!
> >Has anybody successfully made a fresnel lens?
>
> Sure... just not as a Lightwave object. ;-) However, as I understand
> it, they're mostly for focusing light, rather than magnifying images. That
> brings up my question regarding refraction... it'll distort images coming into
> the camera, but will it also bend the light passing through it that is cast on
> other objects? Could one, say, model a working spotlight with a modelled
> Fresnel lens, a reflective hyperbolic mirror and a point source of light?
Yes, but with regards to fresnel lenses... I thought that the principle
behind fresnel lenses is diffraction. Fresnel lenses are flat, and
divided up into circular regions... and the circular lines, or strips,
form a diffraction grating. This grating is thick enough such that it
wavelength becomes slightly insignificant... Anyway, the wavelets of
light hitting a grating change directions due to the quantum mechanical
nature of light... the same way light hitting a CD results in a
rainbow. So it would be interesting if somebody does implement a
fresnel lens object :-).... Perhaps a procedural transparency or
something! I'm still trying to figure out how to make a CD without
diffraction. . .
o/ \o/ o <o o o o Mi dispiace, ma non parlo italiano. :-)
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