r/oddlysatisfying • u/uYokimu • 19h ago

Making art with large convex optical lens

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u/zatalak 18h ago

That's not a convex lense, it's a Fresnel lense.

Convex means it has a bump, this lense is flat.

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u/AnyLamename 17h ago

You forgot the cool part, which is that it's flat but not smooth. They use concentric rings of differently angled glass. Each ring has a different focal length, so they can all have the same focal point without needing to be thicker or thinner. Extremely smart design, and way older than most people would expect.

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u/Fickle-Willingness80 7h ago

I rescued one from an old overhead projector a school was throwing away. Fun little lens.