The computer ray tracing tool developed here (SIMEYE) permits simulations of the optical properties of the human eye and of visual perception under various eye defects, both as still-images and as animated movies. SIMEYE allows for the introduction of arbitrary surfaces (e.g., aspheric surfaces), represented/fitted by a set of Zernike polynomials, in the ray tracing simulation. SIMEYE may have a wide range of applications in both science and education. This tool may help educate/train both the lay public, e.g., patients before undergoing eye surgery, and people in the medical field such as medical students and professionals. Moreover, SIMEYE may be used as a scientific research tool to investigate the visual perception under a variety of eye conditions, in addition to the ones presented here, and after various ophthalmic surgical procedures such as cataract surgery and LASIK.
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