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    Optics Question - How is light divided into a 2d image?

    It seems as though you are saying the lens breaks up an image into different portions of light across a 2d plane. If so, how can I see pretty much see the same total image out of different portions of the lens in someone's eye glasses? What about light passing through a window? What about a...
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    Optics Question - How is light divided into a 2d image?

    The theory seems simple. Light strikes the film in a camera, or a CCD and the different regions of intensity are recorded. But what I can't get my head over, is how a different portion of the film strip or CCD *knows* which part of the image it is supposed to be representing. For example, if...
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