# Chromatic Aberration

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

## Page content

### Chromatic Aberration

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 </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/dispersion>
- Lateral fringing </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/lateral>
- Longitudinal fringing </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/longitudinal>
- The fix </buckrackley/sites/chromatic-aberration/3d/the-fix>
### Through a simple lens

ABERRATION

ABERRATION

ABERRATION

### Corrected

ABERRATION

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


## 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>

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