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Digital lens technology enables the creation of personalized lenses for a more natural visual experience.
FREMONT, CA: Since the Middle Ages, glasses have been used to aid scribes and copyists in seeing more clearly, but the technology required to create high-quality lenses has advanced significantly from the primitive lens grinding procedures utilized back then.
When shopping for new spectacles, such as progressive or single-vision lenses, words such as 'digital free-form,' 'direct-to-surface,' or 'high-definition' may be mentioned.
Lenses can now be processed, created, modified, manufactured digitally, or even all of the above.
Specialized technology digitally scans your eyes, collecting many data points on each eye.
This information supports the equipment's algorithms in establishing a prescription that considers both your refractive error and the unique characteristics of your eyes' shape and surface.
The resulting prescription provides the optimal balance of vision, including improved night vision.
Optimum lens performance
You'll need to take some additional measurements following your frame decision, including how close the frame sits to the front of your eye, how your head is tilted, and how the frame rolls around your face.
These exact measurements ensure that your prescription is as straightforward as possible when you put on your new high-tech glasses.
Manufacturing
Your order will certainly be routed to a lab, which will fabricate the lenses using a computer-controlled free-form generator.
The generator is capable of reading and responding to your new, advanced prescription, which is written to the nearest 1/100th of a diopter. The lenses are designed to adjust for differences in your eyes' shape throughout the lens' surface.
This may improve your vision and your vision across a broader region of your lens.
What does the term "free-form technology" mean?
Free-form technology is a cutting-edge digital manufacturing approach that utilizes computer-aided design and surfacing to create high-quality, prescription-specific eyeglass lenses. You may now have lenses customized to your exact prescription and frame requirements, just as you can have an off-the-rack pair of jeans modified to your exact specifications. Consider it your eyes' shopper.
The advantages of custom-made free-form lenses
Numerous leaders in the vision correction industry feel that free-form technology will be the next big thing. Along with the increased visual clarity that tailored free-form lenses provide, the following benefits are possible:
• Superior contrast perception: Free-form lenses can help you see more clearly.
• Exceptional color vision: Free-form lenses allow you to maximize the optics of your lenses, resulting in more intense, brighter colors.
• Outstanding low/night vision: At night, light sources such as car headlights can cause glare and halo effects, which can be mitigated using free-form lenses.
While anyone can benefit from digital lenses, those with complex prescriptions or progressive lenses will see the most improvement in their vision.
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