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Longitudinal aberration
Explore Chromatic Aberration: an interactive 3D scene
Longitudinal: color by depth
Longitudinal aberration puts each color's focus at a different distance, so it shows up everywhere including dead center. In front of focus the fringe runs purple, behind it green. This is the purple fringing around bright highlights.
Back to start Dispersion Lateral fringing The fixFocus moves with color
in front of focus: purple rim
at focus: clean
behind focus: green rim
Same bright highlight at three depths. The rim flips from purple to green as you cross the focus.