Official : Unity has better taste than Tip.
Go figure.
Still, glasses with totally circular lenses are a bit of a rarity in real life, yet overly prevalent in fiction most likely due to simplicity.
Can confirm that it’s a pain to find true circle frames, or even to have circular lenses custom-made. The lens-cutting machines at the places I checked weren’t even capable of it.
Interestingly, the reason circle frames are rare isn’t fashion, or not only that. They make it much more difficult to orient prescription lenses correctly, as there’s no clear top, bottom, or sides.
Also, I find the tastes of both characters to be palatable, but that’s me. There’s no objective good and bad for such preferences.
Yanno I never thought of the orientation issue and I really should have as someone who’s astigmatic and thus requires either Toric contacts or lenses with dual plane maginification that has to orient to their eye…
The orientation is a good point. As for finding frames, Amazon has everything. I’ve been looking at a couple different pairs of circle frames, but in light of this convo, I’ll check with my eye doctor to see if they can do the round lenses before I spend my money on the frames.
This probably explains the style of early-historical eyeglasses where the lenses were relatively small (and circular), spaced apart to centre over the eyes. I imagine they would have been simple convex or concave grinds, so orientation wouldn’t matter, but a circular shape would have been easier to do, as would smaller lenses.
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Official : Unity has better taste than Tip.
Go figure.
Still, glasses with totally circular lenses are a bit of a rarity in real life, yet overly prevalent in fiction most likely due to simplicity.
Can confirm that it’s a pain to find true circle frames, or even to have circular lenses custom-made. The lens-cutting machines at the places I checked weren’t even capable of it.
Interestingly, the reason circle frames are rare isn’t fashion, or not only that. They make it much more difficult to orient prescription lenses correctly, as there’s no clear top, bottom, or sides.
Also, I find the tastes of both characters to be palatable, but that’s me. There’s no objective good and bad for such preferences.
Yanno I never thought of the orientation issue and I really should have as someone who’s astigmatic and thus requires either Toric contacts or lenses with dual plane maginification that has to orient to their eye…
The orientation is a good point. As for finding frames, Amazon has everything. I’ve been looking at a couple different pairs of circle frames, but in light of this convo, I’ll check with my eye doctor to see if they can do the round lenses before I spend my money on the frames.
It’s not just for astigmatism. They have to position the lens at the center of focus for each eye even if you’re not astigmatic.
This probably explains the style of early-historical eyeglasses where the lenses were relatively small (and circular), spaced apart to centre over the eyes. I imagine they would have been simple convex or concave grinds, so orientation wouldn’t matter, but a circular shape would have been easier to do, as would smaller lenses.