Digital DIN fonts were available at the time, but only in two weights of purely geometric shapes. Spiekermann was acutely aware of the lack of options for designers wanting to use these kinds of typefaces. This seemed strange to Pool, but one year later, FontFont published his FF OCR-F typeface, followed closely by FF DIN. He suggested that if Pool wanted to make some money in type design, that he take a closer look at neglected faces such as OCR and DIN. This means that the MTF derived from aberrations, which by definition asymptotes at one for low spatial frequencies, overstates the actual contrast of retinal images.On the way back to the airport from the 1994 ATypI conference in San Francisco, Albert-Jan Pool and Erik Spiekermann discussed Pool’s prospects, Spiekermann knowing that his friend’s employer had just gone out of business. Scatter, which is the typical source of the large-angle components, may contribute very small values to the PSF, but when integrated these components may constitute as much as 16% of the PSF volume in the normal young eye, and even more in older eyes (Ginis et al., 2012 IJspeert et al., 1993). In discussions of scattered light and visual glare it is common to distinguish between small-angle (< 1°) and large-angle components of the PSF. From a practical point of view, the effect of scatter is to reduce the contrast of retinal images.

To it must be added the effects of light scatter (Ginis, Pérez, Bueno, & Artal, 2012 Piñero, Ortiz, & Alio, 2010 van den Berg, Franssen, Kruijt, & Coppens, 2012). The OTF (or PSF) derived from wave front aberrations is not a complete description of the optical transfer properties of the eye. The result shows a relative increase in sensitivity, by almost a tenth of a log unit (almost 25%), at an orientation of 90°. The results for the 50 collections are combined in Figure 7. The values within each collection were then normalized by their mean and plotted against orientation. This was obtained by computing the mean discrete MTF, as described above, and then collecting all values in bins of width 1 cycle/deg in radial frequency, restricting to values below 50 cycles/deg. They noted that the distribution of residual astigmatism had a slight bias towards positive J 0, or “with the rule.” In Figure 7 we plot the log relative MTF gain as a function of orientation. We have included these aberrations in our calculations, because they presumably reflect the typical low order aberrations present in even well-corrected observers. Despite this procedure, their wave front measurements revealed some residual low order aberrations. ( 2002) conducted a subjective refraction and inserted appropriate sphero-cylindrical correction. Prior to their wave front measurements, Thibos et al.

In conjunction with a recently proposed formula for average pupil diameter (Watson & Yellott, 2012), we may now compute the average MTF for specified viewing conditions. Together these three developments allow us to compute the white light MTF for a large population of individual eyes at various pupil diameters and from their average to derive an analytical formula. The third development consists of a mathematical technique for computing the polychromatic PSF from monochromatic aberrations (Ravikumar, Thibos, & Bradley, 2008). This allows us to extend the data of Thibos et al. The second development consist of mathematical techniques for computing aberrations at a smaller pupil from those collected at a larger pupil (Díaz, Fernández-Dorado, Pizarro, & Arasa, 2009 Mahajan, 2010 Schwiegerling, 2002). The first is the collection of wave front aberration data, for one wavelength and pupil diameter, from 200 best-corrected eyes of 100 young visually healthy observers (Thibos et al., 2002). Our approach is enabled by three recent developments.

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