Tag Archives: View

Blind Spots From Night Car Mirrors

Most of us are still using the reducing prismatic rear-view mirror designs in our cars that we move to a different position at night. This adjustment greatly reduces the glare from the headlights of automobiles behind us. With the advent of xenon headlights, the illumination increased up to threefold making the glare even worse. Many [...]

Bugs Eye Optometrist View on Things

Picture of the week. This is an unidentified insect eye magnified over 800x by an electron microscope. It is an example of a compound eye, a primitive form where each sphere is a unit that is a cluster of photoreceptor light sensing cells. Imagine a small image for each sphere and you have the mosaic [...]