# Lateral aberration

Explore Chromatic Aberration: an interactive 3D scene

Site: Chromatic Aberration
URL:  https://3dcms.info/buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/lateral
Section: Page cluster

## Page content

### Lateral: color grows toward the edge

Lateral aberration shifts each color sideways, and the shift grows with distance from the center of the frame. The middle bar above is clean. Each bar outward carries a red edge on one side and a cyan edge on the other.

- Back to start </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/start>
- Dispersion </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/dispersion>
- Longitudinal fringing </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/longitudinal>
- The fix </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/the-fix>
optical axis: no fringe

### Worst at the edge

Seven identical bars. Only the middle one, on the optical axis, is clean. The fringe widens with distance.


## All pages
- Chromatic Aberration: Page </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/start>
- Why it happens: dispersion: Page </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/dispersion>
- Lateral aberration: Page </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/lateral>
- Longitudinal aberration: Page </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/longitudinal>
- The fix: the achromatic doublet: Page </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/the-fix>

View the interactive 3D version →