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Chromatic Aberration

Explore Chromatic Aberration: an interactive 3D scene

One lens cannot bend every color by the same amount, so a single point of white light arrives as several colored points instead of one. That split is chromatic aberration. Take any sign below: each room shows a different part of it.

Dispersion Lateral fringing Longitudinal fringing The fix

Through a simple lens

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Same white letters both times. The top one also has a red copy shifted left and a cyan copy shifted right.