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Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by rtkwe on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:54AM (#36601269)
With extreme corrections it get harder to put that into anything other than flat lenses and a lot of sun glasses aren't that shape. I recently went through getting perscription safety glasses and had to get special inserts to flatten out the lens profile to make my relatively minor -3.75 to -4 prescription. I was able to get some relatively normal Oakleys in my script for sunglasses though.
Re:Bret Victor: Update July 2023 by mindslight on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#36601577)
Also you generally want sunglasses to be much wider than prescription glasses, because otherwise you get too much light bleed around the sides. Making large lenses is when the thickness takes off, especially for nearsightedness where the thickness needs to be at the edge of the lens.