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  Re: optics and photons  
From: Ben Birdsey
Date: 27 Jan 2001 00:38:50
Message: <3A725FBC.9C5560F6@mail.com>
There are so-called aspheric lenses which will focus light better, but
only light that is exactly on the optical axis.

	But I recently read an article about a gradient index sphere that
should focus light coming from any direction.  The trick here is that
the lens has a different index of refraction at its center than at its
edge.  Very interesting, but pretty hard to model in POV.

	Ben
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