The University of Bradford’s optometry department has built a device called
an aberroscope to find out how ageing affects the lens of the eye. The
aberroscope projects a grid of six horizontal and vertical lines which are
reflected off the retina and back out through the lens. Lens aberrations show up
as distortions of the lines.
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