Saturday, June 11, 2011

Variations In Types Of Eyeglasses

By Adriana Noton


Eyeglasses are comprised of frames that contain lenses and are placed before eyes for the sake of vision correction or protection. Safety glasses provide protection from radiation, light, or flying objects. Sunglasses improve vision while in brightly lit environments and can reduce damage from ultraviolet light. Other glasses help view visual information or are worn simply for aesthetic reasons.

Glasses come with padded supports to rest on the nose bridge and have sides to rest on the ears. The most popular lenses are the CR-39 type. These block infrared and ultraviolet radiation, have low dispersion, are scratch resistant, and weigh little.

Many varieties of eyeglasses exist. These include safety, extreme magnification, corrective, progressive, sun, trifocal, 3D, bifocal, and reading glasses. Corrective glasses can modify focal lengths to correct farsightedness, nearsightedness, and astigmatism.

Nearsightedness is when far away objects look blurry but close objects are seen clearly. The glasses lenses worn by these individuals are concave. Farsightedness is corrected with convex lenses to help make close up objects less blurry. Cylindrical lenses are used for astigmatism, which is a disorder that effects how light rays are passed to the retina. Corrective eyeglasses improve the sight of individuals with these problems and reduce any side effects they were experiencing, such as headaches.

Safety glasses are given a plastic type lens that is shatter resistant. This helps it prevent damage to eyes from flying debris. These products vary greatly in the amount of protection they offer. Those worn in the medical field are customized especially for protection against fluid splattering. Those used in factories must shield eyes from metal, flying wood, and sawdust. Therefore, the glasses worn in factories must have a stronger type of lens and more shielding components. Lenses for either kind can be made into corrective versions.

Sunglass lenses can be prescription or darkened. Darkening provides extra protection against light damage, including damage from UV rays. Photochromatic type lenses are another option. These darken when UV light is present. Light polarization is another possibility, which helps with glare elimination. This is very beneficial for pilots, who could otherwise become blinded while in flight.

The yellow shaded lens increases the contrast of colors and improves depth perception. These work well for seeing at dusk but inhibit vision at nighttime. Sometimes these are worn not to protect the eyes but merely for aesthetic reasons. Blind individuals may also wear opaque glasses to keep their eyes hidden from view.

3D glasses make two dimensional surfaces appear three dimensional. This effect is created by having one lens blue colored and the other red. A variation of this is to have a lens polarized vertically and a lens polarized horizontally. The goal is to have each of the eyes receive different information.

Eyeglasses come in various sizes, shapes, and uses. They can be worn to correct sight and protect, or simply as a statement of fashion. Even 3D versions exist and are used to see in three dimensions for entertainment purposes.




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