• Dalvoron@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    26 days ago

    Right, but we’re talking about the eye, which glasses are made to focus light into a pin-point with in combination with the natural refractive properties of the eye itself when placed at a specified distance from the eye. Naturally if the glasses were specifically created with a more appropriate focal length, it would be much easier to start a fire with them.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      26 days ago

      They focus into your retina, which is small, but not pinhead small. The length they sit away fron your eyes is part of it. You could take them off and get that focal point to be concentrated in much smaller area.

      • Dalvoron@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        26 days ago

        The retina is not as small as a pinhead, but the light from any source doesn’t get focused over the whole thing, it gets focused to a point. Anything else would mean the image is blurred, defeating the point of the glasses.