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My Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades.

Published April 25th, 2016 by Bernardo

Light consists of two waves, one propagated in the horizontal plane and one in the vertical plane. When light bounces off a flat surface, such as water, the horizontal component is seen as glare. Polarized lenses are made using a special optical filter which absorbs the horizontal component of light and transmits only the vertical component.

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