• in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
• according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
• optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians (dispersive prism pictured)?

Facts on topics related to Optics

Glass

• amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass, has no crystal structure?
• David Yuile and his brother William attempted to control the Canadian glass manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass?
• dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion?
• an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?
• in 1955, the Glass Age Development Committee proposed to demolish the whole of London's Soho district and rebuild it entirely in glass?
• systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry (example pictured)?
• the soda ash, used in the production of glass, textiles, and paper, was historically made using the Leblanc process?
• the Kremlin stars, crowning five towers of the Moscow Kremlin since the 1930s, are made of ruby glass?
• the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?