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The controlled bending of light rays is what optical design is all about. Optical designers have infinite ways to curve the sides of glass and plastic and thereby create lenses. But there are only two basic types of lenses...



Positive lenses... which are always thick in the middle and thin at the edge. They come in different shapes but are always thick in the middle and thin at the edge.



and... Negative lenses... are always thin in the middle and thick at the edge.






Positive lenses converge light rays.
   


Negative lenses diverge light rays.
   




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