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Computer Ray Tracing of the Optical System of the Schematic Eye

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  1. National Biomedical Research Foundation, Silver Spring, Maryland

    ROBERT S. LEDLEY & GEORGE C. CHENG

  2. Optometric Center of New York, New York City

    WILLIAM M. LUDLAM

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LEDLEY, R., CHENG, G. & LUDLAM, W. Computer Ray Tracing of the Optical System of the Schematic Eye. Nature 211, 930–932 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211930a0

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