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Nature did not "Figure this out", Nature wrote ALL the rules. With the passage of time using essentially trial and error various creatures and sometimes humanity also figures out how to make the best symbolic deal to solve a problem that completely fits the rules set down by Nature.
The better one understands the way Nature really is, the better a symbiotic deal can be made. Try to get around the ways of Nature comes a cost with no exceptions.
Doing technical design work often instill a very serious appreciation of how unforgiving Nature really is.
As for this Academic paper presented, caused cringing as this was more of a math exercise than a real world solution. Previously mentioned, any lens grinder that would attempt to make the complex curvature of this proposed solution would face some very serious challenges and problems to solve. Real world solutions must be producible and replicated with not too much difficulty and complexity or the cost per item grows rapidly in a very non-linear way. Designs that have endured the test of time have survived the real world test of solving and meet the specific need well enough at a reasonable cost and ease of production or product evolution would have caused extinction early on in the products life.
Bernice
Have you wondered about the necessity of feedback to inform Nature when it has optimized the design, or does change continue to possibly make it worse? Is the feedback simply survival?
That's why it is called Mother Nature.The better one understands the way Nature really is, the better a symbiotic deal can be made. Try to get around the ways of Nature comes a cost with no exceptions.
Doing technical design work often instill a very serious appreciation of how unforgiving Nature really is.
If you are referring to Levi-Seti's device, it has no glass. It is hollow, spun in a machine shop. This was decades before 3D printing. I met with the machinist.As for this Academic paper presented, caused cringing as this was more of a math exercise than a real world solution. Previously mentioned, any lens grinder that would attempt to make the complex curvature of this proposed solution would face some very serious challenges and problems to solve.
Jac, given time to work natural selection can be counted on to find "at least good enough for the situation." It prunes off badly sub-optimal solutions, can't be counted on to find the optimum optimorum. This because of physical limits on what's possible and because situations change and what's at least good enough changes with them. Re this second point, I give you the humble but very well-studied Trinidadian guppy.
Looks like this single-element correction is already allowing Canon to come up with some very simplified new designs...
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
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