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=== Contacts ===
=== Contacts ===
Contact lenses are in physical contact with your eye, and have a vertex distance of 0.  They carry high risks of infection, [[dry eye]] and other eye injuries, and require extensive care, and are hard to swap out multiple times a day, but have fewer distortion effects than glasses at higher powers.  Typically when contacts are used in the EM method, they are supplemented with tuning glasses over to get the multiple focal planes needed.  For example you might wear contacts that are selected to be [[differentials]] and wear [[minus lenses]] over for [[normalized]] or you might wear full prescription contacts, with two powers of [[plus lenses]] over to reach normalized and differential powers.  This ruins the cosmetic benefits of wearing contacts, but may make the process easier for people with strong lenses or who need to not wear glasses for sports or other reasons.
Contact lenses are in physical contact with your eye, and have a vertex distance of 0.  They carry high risks of infection, [[dry eye]] and other eye injuries, and require extensive care, and are hard to swap out multiple times a day, but have fewer distortion effects than glasses at higher powers.  Typically when contacts are used in the EM method, they are supplemented with tuning glasses over to get the multiple focal planes needed.  For example, you might wear contacts that are selected to be [[differentials]] and wear [[minus lenses]] over for [[normalized]] or you might wear full prescription contacts, with two powers of [[plus lenses]] over to reach normalized and differential powers.  This ruins the cosmetic benefits of wearing contacts, but may make the process easier for people with strong lenses or who need to not wear glasses for sports or other reasons.


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 15:34, 11 June 2020

A lens is any medium that transmits light and has an Index of Refraction and shape designed to bend light. The strength of lenses are measured in diopters. Lenses come in many forms but there's a few critical ones that relate to EM.

Crystalline Lens

This is the lens inside your eyeballs. It is not actually the strongest part of your internal refractive state but it is the part that is quickly adjustable. The ciliary muscle can flex this lens and change it's power. The ability to change the power of this lens to focus on near work is called accommodation. As you age, the crystalline lens thickens and is prone to presbyopia and cataracts.

Worn Correction

If the refractive state of your eye causes myopia or hyperopia then you probably wear contacts or glasses. This "corrects" the light coming into your eye to compensate for the refractive state in your eye.

Glasses

Glasses are lenses worn in front of the face, typically at a vertex distance of 10 to 13 cm. Glasses are easily changed and have lower risks than contact lenses, but at higher powers may have some trade-offs.

Distortion Effects

Glasses are only perfectly tuned through their optical centers. If your Pupillary Distance, Pupillary height, or lens adjustment are off, you might not be looking through the optical center of the lens, and you are certainly not looking through the optical center when you look around instead of straight ahead. The power of the lens will vary, and unintentional cylinder can be introduced. You may also not be wearing the lens at the intended vertex distance, affecting the effective power of the lens. The stronger the lens the more of a difference this makes.

Contacts

Contact lenses are in physical contact with your eye, and have a vertex distance of 0. They carry high risks of infection, dry eye and other eye injuries, and require extensive care, and are hard to swap out multiple times a day, but have fewer distortion effects than glasses at higher powers. Typically when contacts are used in the EM method, they are supplemented with tuning glasses over to get the multiple focal planes needed. For example, you might wear contacts that are selected to be differentials and wear minus lenses over for normalized or you might wear full prescription contacts, with two powers of plus lenses over to reach normalized and differential powers. This ruins the cosmetic benefits of wearing contacts, but may make the process easier for people with strong lenses or who need to not wear glasses for sports or other reasons.

See Also