optical effects
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Scientists could observe the optical effects, but they had not directly measured the material's full optical constants.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
The enhanced clarity is why VistaVision hung on longer with the makers of old-school optical effects, serving as a workhorse for the original “Star Wars” trilogy and other pictures into the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Though halos are not uncommon in the UK, the combination of other optical effects is more unusual.
From BBC • May 29, 2023
Light entering a medium with a negative index of refraction, on the contrary, would bend backward, creating unexpected optical effects, such as a straw appearing to lean the wrong way.
From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022
Thus mechanical strains reveal themselves by optical effects; and there is little doubt that in Faraday's experiment it is the magnetic strain that produces the rotation of the plane of polarization.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John
