Last Update: 12/10/2000

This is looking thru a cylinder lens of +6.00, axis 180.  Notice how the vertical lines are sharp and in focus, but it is hard to read anything on the right side of the picture.

This is looking through a cylinder lens of +6.00, axis 90.  Note how the lines are stretched horizontally.

This is looking through a cylinder lens of +6.00, axis 180.  Note how the lines are stretched vertically.

The left side of the following picture is what a person would see at 12 inches away that needed an astigmatism correction of -6.00, axis 180.  The right side is with the correction.