On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:47:47 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

I was under the impression (could be wrong of cause) that in these fluid
lenses the curvature is set by a voltage gradient.
That would mean that if you had several electrodes, you could control
curvature locally perhaps.
Transparent metallized pattern on bottom container concected to output
electrodes of a chip?
These things only take a few volt.
Who knows what the future will bring.

I can certainly believe it is possible to make a fluid lens where
complex spatial changes in curvature can be controlled. But the current
technology seems limited to essentially changing the simple curvature of
a meniscus.

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