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Eye- organ of vision in animals and humans. The human eye consists of the eyeball, connected by the optic nerve to the brain, and the auxiliary apparatus (eyelids, lacrimal organs and muscles that move the eyeball).
The eyeball (Fig. 94) is protected by a dense membrane called sclera. Anterior (transparent) part of the sclera 1
called cornea. The cornea is the most sensitive external part of the human body (even the lightest touch causes an instant reflex closure of the eyelids).
Located behind the cornea iris 2
, which can have different colors among people. Between the cornea and the iris there is a watery fluid. There is a small hole in the iris - pupil 3. The diameter of the pupil can vary from 2 to 8 mm, decreasing in the light and increasing in the dark.
Behind the pupil there is a transparent body resembling a biconvex lens - lens 4. It is soft and almost gelatinous on the outside, but harder and more elastic on the inside. The lens is surrounded muscles 5, attaching it to the sclera.
Located behind the lens vitreous body 6, which is a colorless gelatinous mass. The back of the sclera - the fundus of the eye - is covered with a retina ( retina) 7
. It consists of the finest fibers covering the fundus of the eye and representing the branched endings of the optic nerve.
How do images of various objects appear and are perceived by the eye?
Light refracting into optical system of the eye, which is formed by the cornea, lens and vitreous body, gives real, reduced and inverse images of the objects in question on the retina (Fig. 95). Once light reaches the endings of the optic nerve, which make up the retina, it irritates these endings. These irritations are transmitted through nerve fibers to the brain, and a person has a visual sensation: he sees objects.
The image of an object appearing on the retina of the eye is upside down. The first to prove this by plotting the course of rays in the eye system was I. Kepler. To test this conclusion, the French scientist R. Descartes (1596-1650) took a bull's eye and, after scraping off the opaque layer from its back wall, placed it in a hole made in a window shutter. And then, on the translucent wall of the fundus, he saw an inverted image of the picture observed from the window.
Why then do we see all objects as they are, that is, not inverted? The fact is that the process of vision is continuously corrected by the brain, which receives information not only through the eyes, but also through other senses. At one time, the English poet William Blake (1757-1827) very correctly noted:
Through the eye, not with the eye
The mind knows how to look at the world.
In 1896, American psychologist J. Stretton conducted an experiment on himself. He put on special glasses, thanks to which the images of surrounding objects on the retina of the eye were not reversed, but direct. So what? The world in Stretton's mind turned upside down. He began to see all objects upside down. Because of this, there was a mismatch in the work of the eyes with other senses. The scientist developed symptoms of seasickness. He felt nauseated for three days. However, on the fourth day the body began to return to normal, and on the fifth day Stretton began to feel the same as before the experiment. The scientist’s brain became accustomed to the new working conditions, and he began to see all objects straight again. But when he took off his glasses, everything turned upside down again. Within an hour and a half, his vision was restored, and he began to see normally again.
It is curious that such adaptability is characteristic only of the human brain. When, in one of the experiments, inverting glasses were put on a monkey, it received such a psychological blow that, after making several wrong movements and falling, it fell into a state reminiscent of a coma. Her reflexes began to fade, her blood pressure dropped, and her breathing became rapid and shallow. Nothing like this is observed in humans.
However, the human brain is not always able to cope with the analysis of the image obtained on the retina. In such cases there are visual illusions- the observed object does not seem to us as it really is.
There is one more feature of vision that cannot be ignored. It is known that when the distance from the lens to the object changes, the distance to its image also changes. How does a clear image remain on the retina when we move our gaze from a distant object to a closer one?
It turns out that those muscles that are attached to the lens are capable of changing the curvature of its surfaces and thereby the optical power of the eye. When we look at distant objects, these muscles are in a relaxed state and the curvature of the lens is relatively small. When looking at nearby objects, the eye muscles compress the lens, and its curvature, and therefore the optical power, increases.
The ability of the eye to adapt to vision at both near and far distances is called accommodation(from lat. accomodatio- device). Thanks to accommodation, a person manages to focus images of various objects at the same distance from the lens - on the retina.
However, when the object in question is very close, the tension of the muscles that deform the lens increases, and the work of the eye becomes tiring. The optimal distance for reading and writing for a normal eye is about 25 cm. This distance is called clear distance(or best) vision.
What advantage does vision give? two eyes?
Firstly, it is thanks to the presence of two eyes that we can distinguish which object is closer and which is further from us. The fact is that the retinas of the right and left eyes produce images that differ from each other (corresponding to looking at an object as if from the right and left). The closer the object, the more noticeable this difference. It creates the impression of a difference in distances. This same ability of vision allows you to see an object as three-dimensional, rather than flat.
Secondly, due to the presence of two eyes, it increases field of view. The human field of vision is shown in Figure 97, a. For comparison, the visual fields of a horse (Fig. 97, c) and a hare (Fig. 97, b) are shown next to it. Looking at these pictures, it is easy to understand why it is so difficult for predators to sneak up on these animals without giving themselves away.
Vision allows people to see each other. Is it possible to see oneself, but be invisible to others? The English writer Herbert Wells (1866-1946) first tried to answer this question in his novel The Invisible Man. A person will become invisible after his substance becomes transparent and has the same optical density as the surrounding air. Then there will be no reflection and refraction of light at the border of the human body with air, and it will turn into invisible. So, for example, crushed glass, which looks like a white powder in air, immediately disappears from view when it is placed in water - a medium that has approximately the same optical density as glass
In 1911, the German scientist Spalteholtz soaked a preparation of dead animal tissue with a specially prepared liquid, and then placed it in a vessel with the same liquid. The drug became invisible.
However, the invisible man must be invisible in air, and not in a specially prepared solution. But this cannot be achieved.
But let’s assume that a person still manages to become transparent. People will stop seeing him. Will he be able to see them himself? No, after all, all its parts, including the eyes, will stop refracting light rays, and, therefore, no image will appear on the retina of the eye. In addition, in order to form a visible image in a person’s mind, light rays must be absorbed by the retina, transferring their energy to it. This energy is necessary for the generation of signals traveling along the optic nerve to the human brain. If the invisible man's eyes become completely transparent, then this will not happen. And if so, then he will stop seeing altogether. The invisible man will be blind.
H.G. Wells did not take this circumstance into account and therefore endowed his hero with normal vision, allowing him to terrorize an entire city without being noticed.
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1. How does the human eye work? Which parts form an optical system?
2. Describe the image appearing on the retina of the eye.
3. How is the image of an object transmitted to the brain? Why do we see objects straight and not upside down?
4. Why, when we move our gaze from a close object to a distant one, do we continue to see its clear image?
5. What is the distance of best vision?
6. What is the advantage of seeing with both eyes?
7. Why must the invisible man be blind?
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Topics of the Unified State Examination codifier: the eye as an optical system.
The eye is an amazingly complex and perfect optical system created by nature. Now we will learn in general terms how the human eye functions. Subsequently, this will allow us to better understand the principles of operation of optical instruments; Yes, besides, this is interesting and important in itself.
The structure of the eye.
We will limit ourselves to considering only the most basic elements of the eye. They are shown in Fig. 1 (right eye, top view).
Rays coming from an object (in this case, the object is a human figure) fall on the cornea - the front transparent part of the protective shell of the eye. Refracting into cornea and passing through pupil(hole in iris eyes), the rays undergo secondary refraction in lens. The lens is a converging lens with variable focal length; it can change its curvature (and thus its focal length) under the action of a special eye muscle.
The refractive system of the cornea and lens forms retina image of an object. The retina consists of light-sensitive rods and cones - nerve endings optic nerve. Incident light irritates these nerve endings, and the optic nerve transmits corresponding signals to the brain. This is how images of objects are formed in our minds - we we see the surrounding world.
Take another look at Fig. 1 and note that the image of the object being examined on the retina is real, inverted and reduced. This happens because objects viewed by the eye without strain are located behind the double focus of the cornea-lens system (remember the case for a converging lens?).
The fact that the image is valid is clear: the rays themselves (and not their extensions) must intersect on the retina, concentrating light energy and causing irritation of the rods and cones.
There are also no questions about the fact that the image is reduced. What else could he be? The diameter of the eye is approximately 25 mm, and our field of vision includes much larger objects. Naturally, the eye displays them on the retina in a reduced form.
But what about the fact that the image on the retina is inverted? Why then do we not see the world upside down? This is where the corrective action of our brain comes into play. It turns out that the cerebral cortex, processing the image on the retina, turns the picture back! This is an established fact, verified by experiments.
As we have already said, the lens is a converging lens with a variable focal length. But why does the lens need to change its focal length?
Accommodation.
Imagine that you are looking at a person approaching you. You see him clearly all the time. How does the eye manage to provide this?
To better understand the essence of the issue, let's remember the lens formula:
In this case, this is the distance from the eye to the object, - the distance from the lens to the retina, - the focal length of the optical system of the eye. The value is unknown
variable because it is a geometric characteristic of the eye. Therefore, in order for the lens formula to remain valid, the focal length must change along with the distance to the object being examined.
For example, if an object approaches the eye, it decreases, so it should
decrease. To do this, the eye muscle deforms the lens, making it more convex and thereby reducing the focal length to the desired value. When an object is removed, on the contrary, the curvature of the lens decreases and the focal length increases.
The described mechanism of self-adjustment of the eye is called accommodation. So, accommodation - this is the ability of the eye to clearly see objects at different distances. During the process of accommodation, the curvature of the lens changes so that the image of the object always appears on the retina.
Accommodation of the eye occurs unconsciously and very quickly. The elastic lens can easily change its curvature within certain limits. These natural limits of lens deformation correspond to
area of accommodation
- the range of distances at which the eye is able to see objects clearly. The area of accommodation is characterized by its boundaries - the far and near points of accommodation.
Far point of accommodation(far point of clear vision) is the point of location of an object, the image of which on the retina is obtained when the eye muscle is relaxed, i.e. when the lens is not deformed.
Near point of accommodation(near point of clear vision) is the point of location of an object, the image of which on the retina is obtained with the greatest tension of the eye muscle, i.e. with the maximum possible deformation of the lens.
The far point of accommodation of a normal eye is at infinity: in a relaxed state, the eye focuses parallel rays on the retina (Fig. 2, left). In other words, The focal length of the optical system of a normal eye with an undeformed lens is equal to the distance from the lens to the retina.
The closest point of accommodation of a normal eye is located at some distance from it (Fig. 2, right; the lens is maximally deformed). This distance increases with age. So, in a ten-year-old child, cm; at the age of 30 cm; By the age of 45, the nearest point of accommodation is already at a distance of 20–25 cm from the eye.
Now we come to the simple but very important concept of angle of view. It is key to understanding the operating principles of various optical instruments.
Angle of view.
When we want to get a better look at an object, we bring it closer to our eyes. The closer the object, the more of its details are distinguishable. Why does this happen?
Let's look at fig. 3. Let the arrow be the object in question, the optical center of the eye. Let's draw the rays and (which are not refracted) and get an image of our object on the retina - a red curved arrow.
The angle is called angle of view. If the object is located far from the eye, then the angle of vision is small, and the size of the image on the retina is also small.
But if the object is placed closer, the angle of view increases (Fig. 4). Accordingly, the size of the image on the retina increases. Compare fig. 3 and fig. 4 - in the second case, the curved arrow turns out to be clearly longer!
The size of the image on the retina is what is important for examining an object in detail. The retina, recall, consists of the nerve endings of the optic nerve. Therefore, the larger the image on the retina, the more nerve endings are irritated by light rays coming from the object, the greater the flow of information about the object is sent along the optic nerve to the brain - and, therefore, the more details we distinguish, the better we see the object!
Well, the size of the image on the retina, as we have already seen from Figures 3 and 4, directly depends on the viewing angle: the larger the viewing angle, the larger the image. Therefore the conclusion is: By increasing the angle of view, we discern more details of the object in question.
This is why we see equally poorly both small objects, even if they are nearby, and large objects, but located far away. In both cases, the visual angle is small, and a small number of nerve endings are irritated on the retina. It is known, by the way, that if the visual angle is less than one arc minute (1/60 of a degree), then only one nerve ending is irritated. In this case, we perceive the object simply as a point, devoid of details.
Best viewing distance.
So, by bringing an object closer, we increase the angle of view and discern more details. It would seem that we will achieve optimal quality of vision if we place the object as close to the eye as possible - at the nearest point of accommodation (on average, 10–15 cm from the eye).
However, we don't do that. For example, when reading a book, we hold it at a distance of approximately 25 cm. Why do we stop at this distance, although there is still a resource for further increasing the angle of view?
The fact is that when the object is located close enough, the lens becomes excessively deformed. Of course, the eye is still able to clearly see the object, but at the same time it quickly gets tired, and we experience unpleasant tension.
The value cm is called best vision distance for a normal eye. At this distance, a compromise is reached: the angle of view is already large enough, and at the same time the eye does not get tired due to the not too large deformation of the lens. Therefore, from the distance of the best vision, we can fully contemplate an object for a very long time.
Myopia.
Recall that the focal length of a normal eye in a relaxed state is equal to the distance from the optical center to the retina. A normal eye focuses parallel rays onto the retina and can therefore see distant objects clearly without experiencing strain.
Myopia is a vision defect in which the focal length of a relaxed eye is less than the distance from the optical center to the retina. Myopic eye focuses parallel rays before retina, and this makes images of distant objects blurry (Fig. 5; we do not depict the lens).
Loss of image clarity occurs when an object is located beyond a certain distance. This distance corresponds to the far point of accommodation of the myopic eye. Thus, if a person with normal vision has a far point of accommodation at infinity, then for a myopic person, the far point of accommodation is located at a finite distance in front of him.
Accordingly, the near point of accommodation in a myopic eye is closer than in a normal eye.
The best vision distance for a nearsighted person is less than 25 cm. Myopia is corrected using glasses with diverging lenses. Passing through a diverging lens, a parallel beam of light becomes divergent, as a result of which the image of an infinitely distant point is pushed back onto the retina (Fig. 6). If you mentally continue the diverging rays entering the eye, they will converge at the far point of accommodation.
Thus, the myopic eye, armed with suitable glasses, perceives a parallel beam of light as emanating from the far point of accommodation. This is why a nearsighted person wearing glasses can clearly see distant objects without straining their eyes. From Fig. 6 we also see that the focal length of a suitable lens is equal to the distance from the eye to the far point of accommodation.
Farsightedness.
Farsightedness is a vision defect in which the focal length of a relaxed eye is greater than the distance from the optical center to the retina.
The farsighted eye focuses parallel rays for retina, causing images of distant objects to be blurred (Fig. 7).
Focuses on the retina convergent beam of rays. Therefore, the far point of accommodation of the farsighted eye turns out to be imaginary: in it the mental continuations of the rays of a converging beam that falls on the eye intersect (we will see this below in Fig. 8). The near point of accommodation in a farsighted eye is located further than in a normal eye. The distance of best vision for a farsighted person is more than 25 cm.
Farsightedness is corrected using glasses with converging lenses. After passing through the converging lens, the parallel beam of light becomes converging and is then focused on the retina (Fig. 8).
Parallel rays, after refraction in the lens, travel in such a way that the continuations of the refracted rays intersect at the far point of accommodation. Therefore, a farsighted person, armed with suitable glasses, will clearly and without strain examine distant objects. We also see from Fig. 8 that the focal length of a suitable lens is equal to the distance from the eye to the imaginary far point of accommodation.
Eyes- an organ that allows a person to live a full life, admire the beauty of the surrounding nature and exist comfortably in society. People understand how important the eyes are, but they rarely think about why they blink, why they cannot sneeze with their eyes closed, and other interesting facts related to this unique organ.
10 Interesting Facts About the Human Eye
The eyes are the conductor of information about the world around us.
In addition to vision, a person has organs of touch and smell, but it is the eyes that conduct 80% of the information that tells about what is happening around. The ability of the eyes to capture images is very important, since it is visual images that retain memory longer. When meeting a specific person or object again, the organ of vision activates memories and gives rise to thought.
Scientists compare the eyes to a camera, the quality of which is many times higher than that of ultra-modern technology. Bright and content-rich pictures allow a person to easily navigate the world around them.
The cornea of the eye is the only tissue in the body that does not receive blood.
The cornea of the eye receives oxygen directly from the air
The uniqueness of such an organ as the eyes lies in the fact that no blood flows into its cornea. The presence of capillaries would negatively affect the quality of the image captured by the eye, so oxygen, without which not a single organ of the human body can function effectively, receives oxygen directly from the air.
Highly sensitive sensors transmitting signals to the brain
The eye is a miniature computer
Ophthalmologists (vision specialists) compare the eyes to a miniature computer that captures information and instantly transmits it to the brain. Scientists have calculated that the “RAM” of the organ of vision can process about 36 thousand bits of information within an hour; programmers know how large this volume is. Meanwhile, the weight of miniature laptop computers is only 27 grams.
What does having close eyes give a person?
A person sees only what is happening directly in front of him
The location of the eyes in animals, insects and humans is different; this is explained not only by physiological processes, but also by the nature of life and the hoary habitation of a living creature. The close placement of the eyes provides depth of image and three-dimensionality of objects.
Humans are more advanced creatures, therefore they have high-quality vision, especially when compared with marine life and animals. True, such an arrangement has its own disadvantage - a person sees only what is happening directly in front of him, the overview is significantly reduced. In many animals, an example is a horse, the eyes are located on the sides of the head, this structure allows you to “capture” more space and react in time to approaching danger.
Do all the inhabitants of the earth have eyes?
Approximately 95 percent of living creatures on our planet have vision
Approximately 95 percent of living creatures on our planet have an organ of vision, but most of them have a different eye structure. In the inhabitants of the deep sea, the organ of vision consists of light-sensitive cells that are not capable of distinguishing color and shape; all that such vision is capable of is perceiving light and its absence.
Some animals determine the volume and texture of objects, but at the same time see them exclusively in black and white. A characteristic feature of insects is the ability to see many pictures at the same time, but they do not recognize colors. Only human eyes have the ability to accurately convey the colors of surrounding objects.
Is it true that the human eye is the most perfect?
There is a myth that a person can only recognize seven colors, but scientists are ready to debunk it. According to experts, the human visual organ is capable of perceiving over 10 million colors; no living creature has such a feature. However, there are other criteria that are not characteristic of the human eye, for example, some insects are able to recognize infrared rays and ultraviolet signals, and the eyes of flies have the ability to detect movement very quickly. The human eye can only be called the most perfect in the field of color recognition.
Who on the planet has the most island eyesight?
Veronica Seider - the girl with the sharpest eyesight on the planet
The name of a student from Germany, Veronica Seider, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records; the girl has the sharpest eyesight on the planet. Veronica recognizes a person's face at a distance of 1 kilometer 600 meters, this figure is approximately 20 times higher than the norm.
Why does a person blink?
If a person did not blink, his eyeball would quickly dry out and quality vision would be out of the question. Blinking causes the eye to become covered with tear fluid. It takes about 12 minutes per day for a person to blink – once every 10 seconds, during which time the eyelids close over 27 thousand times.
A person begins to blink for the first time at six months.
Why do people start sneezing in bright light?
The human eyes and nasal cavity are connected by nerve endings, so often when exposed to bright light we begin to sneeze. By the way, no one can sneeze with their eyes open; this phenomenon is also associated with the reaction of nerve endings to external stimuli of calm.
Restoring vision with the help of sea creatures
Scientists have found similarities in the structure of the human eye and sea creatures, in this case we are talking about sharks. Modern medicine methods make it possible to restore human vision by transplanting a shark cornea. Similar operations are very successfully practiced in China.
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The eye is sometimes called a living camera, since the optical system of the eye that produces the image is similar to a camera lens, but it is much more complex.
The human eye (and many animals) has an almost spherical shape (Fig. 163); it is protected by a dense membrane called the sclera. The anterior part of the sclera - the cornea 1 - is transparent. Behind the cornea (cornea) is the iris 2, which can be a different color in different people. Between the cornea and the iris there is a watery fluid.
Rice. 163. Human eye
There is a hole in the iris - pupil 3, the diameter of which, depending on the lighting, can vary from approximately 2 to 8 mm. It changes because the iris is able to move apart. Behind the pupil there is a transparent body, similar in shape to a converging lens - this is the lens 4, it is surrounded by muscles 5 that attach it to the sclera.
Behind the lens is the vitreous body 6. It is transparent and fills the rest of the eye. The back of the sclera - the fundus of the eye - is covered with a retina 7 (retina). The retina consists of the finest fibers, which, like villi, cover the fundus of the eye. They are branched ends of the optic nerve that are sensitive to light.
How is an image produced and perceived by the eye?
The light falling into the eye is refracted on the front surface of the eye, in the cornea, lens and vitreous body (i.e., in the optical system of the eye), due to which a real, reduced, inverted image of the objects in question is formed on the retina (Fig. 164).
Rice. 164. Formation of an image on the retina
Light falling on the endings of the optic nerve, which make up the retina, irritates these endings. Irritations are transmitted along nerve fibers to the brain, and a person receives a visual impression and sees objects. The process of vision is corrected by the brain, so we perceive the object as straight.
How is a clear image created on the retina when we move our gaze from a distant object to a close one or vice versa?
As a result of its evolution, the optical system of the eye has developed a remarkable property that provides images on the retina at different positions of the object. What kind of property is this?
The curvature of the lens, and therefore its optical power, can change. When we look at distant objects, the curvature of the lens is relatively small because the muscles surrounding it are relaxed. When looking at nearby objects, the muscles compress the lens, its curvature, and therefore the optical power, increases.
The ability of the eye to adapt to vision both at close and far distances is called accommodation of the eye (translated from Latin as “adaptation”). The limit of accommodation occurs when the object is at a distance of 12 cm from the eye. The best vision distance (this is the distance at which the details of an object can be viewed without strain) for a normal eye is 25 cm. This should be taken into account when writing, reading, sewing, etc.
Firstly, we see more space, i.e. the field of view increases. Secondly, vision with two eyes allows us to distinguish which object is closer and which is further from us. The fact is that the retinas of the right and left eyes produce images that are different from each other; we seem to see objects on the left and on the right. The closer the object, the more noticeable this difference is; it creates the impression of a difference in distances, although, of course, the images merge in our minds into one. Thanks to vision with two eyes, we see an object in volume, not flat.
Questions
- How is an image produced and perceived by the eye?
- How is a clear image created on the retina when looking from a distant object to a close one?
- What advantage does seeing with both eyes give?
Exercise
- Using additional literature and the Internet, draw a diagram of the image structure in the camera.
- Prepare a presentation about modern cameras and their use in everyday life and technology.
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Myopia and farsightedness. Glasses
Thanks to accommodation, the image of the objects in question is obtained precisely on the retina of the eye. This is done if the eye is normal.
An eye is called normal if, in a relaxed state, it collects parallel rays at a point lying on the retina (Fig. 165, a). The two most common eye defects are myopia and farsightedness.
Myopic is an eye whose focus, when the eye muscle is at rest, lies inside the eye (Fig. 165, b). Myopia can be caused by a greater distance between the retina and the lens compared to a normal eye. If an object is located at a distance of 25 cm from a myopic eye, then the image of the object will not appear on the retina (as in a normal eye), but closer to the lens, in front of the retina. In order for the image to appear on the retina, you need to bring the object closer to the eye. Therefore, in a myopic eye, the distance of best vision is less than 25 cm.
Rice. 165. Visual impairment
Farsighted is an eye whose focus, when the eye muscle is at rest, lies behind the retina (Fig. 165, f).
Farsightedness may be caused by the retina being closer to the lens than in a normal eye. The image of an object is obtained behind the retina of such an eye. If an object is removed from the eye, the image falls on the retina, hence the name of this defect - farsightedness.
A difference in the location of the retina, even within one millimeter, can already lead to noticeable myopia or farsightedness.
People who had normal vision in their youth become farsighted in old age. This is explained by the fact that the muscles that compress the lens weaken and the ability of accommodation decreases. This also happens due to the compaction of the lens, which loses its ability to compress. Therefore, the image is obtained behind the retina.
Myopia and farsightedness are corrected by using lenses. The invention of glasses was a great boon for people with visual impairments.
What lenses should be used to correct these vision defects?
In a nearsighted eye, the image is obtained inside the eye in front of the retina. In order for it to move to the retina, the optical power of the refractive system of the eye must be reduced. For this, a diverging lens is used (Fig. 166, a).
Rice. 166. Correction of visual impairments using lenses
The optical power of the far-sighted eye system, on the contrary, must be strengthened in order for the image to fall on the retina. For this, a converging lens is used (Fig. 166.6).
So, to correct myopia, glasses with concave, diverging lenses are used. If, for example, a person wears glasses whose optical power is -0.5 diopters (or -2 diopters, -3.5 diopters), then he is myopic.
Glasses for farsighted eyes use convex, converging lenses. Such glasses can have, for example, an optical power of +0.5 diopters, +3 diopters, +4.25 diopters.
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In the daily whirlwind of life, we rarely pay attention to the eyes of the people around us, but this is not only a very important organ of the body that allows us to see the world around us, but also part of the “image”, reflecting our inner state, conveying our emotions.
Can you say exactly what color eyes you, your family, friends, colleagues, neighbors have? Most likely, you can answer most accurately only about the color of your eyes; you see them in the mirror. Will you answer more or less accurately about the color of your relatives' eyes - do you meet their gaze more often than others or look into their eyes? With some doubt, you will give an answer about the eye color of your friends, and few will answer with confidence about the eye color of your colleagues and neighbors.
A little excursion into the distant past
According to scientists, our distant ancestors (Australopithecus, Pithecanthropus, Neanderthals and early representatives of the human race - Cro-Magnons) most likely had dark eyes (brown or even black), and this was due to their habitat in warm areas of the earth with a lot of solar energy. However, approximately 10-6 thousand years ago, a mutation occurred that affected the HERC2 gene, which is responsible for the production of pigment (melanin), which forms not only the color of our hair and skin, but also the color of our eyes. This mutation led to the fact that the production of melanin in the body of the ancestors was reduced, which contributed to the appearance of light eyes (gray, blue). Moreover, there is even a complete shutdown of this gene or failures in its production, and then we can observe congenital “deviations” (disorders), which we will discuss below.
Scientists even suggested that all light-eyed people on the planet have one common ancestor, from whom they inherited the mutated gene.
Let's go back to our time
Nowadays, the color palette of human eyes is not limited only to dark (brown or black) and light (blue and gray). And it should be noted that the owners of dark and light eyes are “distributed” unevenly across the earth. For example, among Africans there are many more people with dark eyes, while residents of Scandinavian countries most often have light eyes, and this is explained by their living conditions.
How does eye color change throughout life?
Eye color is a characteristic that depends on the pigmentation of the iris.
The iris consists of anterior and posterior layers. The posterior layer contains many cells filled with pigment, which is dark in color (except for albinos). The anterior layer consists of the outer border section and the stroma (“litter”), in which chromatophores containing melanin are distributed. The color of the eyes depends on how the pigment is distributed in this layer.
Eye color can change throughout life. As you know, most newborns of the European race are born with blue or blue eyes, but already at the age of 3-6 months, the baby’s eyes can darken, and this is due to the accumulation of melanocytes in the iris. However, this can only be an “intermediate option”. Eye color is finally established only by the age of 10-12 years. However, with age, the eyes of older people change color again - they turn pale, and this happens due to depigmentation associated with degenerative and sclerotic processes in the body.
Eye color may change due to certain diseases. For example, melanomas, hemosiderosis, siderosis and chronic inflammation of the iris can lead to darkening of the iris, and Duane syndrome, lymphoma and leukemia can lead to lightening of the iris. Other diseases can also lead to changes in eye color, but this is a topic for another discussion.
A little about the inheritance of eye color
The issue of inheritance of eye color is very complex. Scientists have long found out that not one, but at least six genes are responsible for the inheritance of eye color, and the rule of dominance of dark color over light does not work here, since it turned out that blue color is not a manifestation of the recessive state of the gene.
There are three main factors that have an important influence on eye color:
- cell density in the iris stroma;
- the amount of melanin in the stroma of the iris;
- the amount of pigment in the pigment epithelium of the iris.
It is impossible to predict 100% the eye color of an unborn child. One can only guess, and then with a probability of approximately 90% (10% remains at the “whims of nature”).
Basic eye color palette
Determining eye color is not as easy as it seems. It's no secret that people's eyes are of different colors, and their palette is not limited to six colors - black, brown, gray, blue, indigo, green. But we rarely pay attention to this. The iris of the eyes is rarely uniformly colored in one color. More often it is a combination of several shades or even colors (for example, among Europeans it can be blue or gray, with green, yellow or brown streaks). Moreover, the color of the eyes is influenced by our mood and their “pattern”, which, as scientists have shown, is unique (like, for example, fingerprints) and forms the basis of iridology (diagnosis of diseases using the iris of the eye) and some electronic personality recognition systems (retina scanner).
How then to determine eye color?
There are three rules for this:
- When we talk about eye color, we mean the shade of the iris, which depends on the coloring pigment and its amount in it. In addition, the thickness of the iris also matters. It tends to contract and expand under the influence of light, and therefore, when the size of the pupil changes, the pigment in the iris either concentrates or disperses (the eyes either darken or lighten). When experiencing strong emotions, our pupils dilate and our eyes appear darker, so when determining your eye color, try to be calm and relax.
- It is better to determine eye color in daylight, going to the window. Daylight does not distort color, so you can more accurately determine not just the color, but also its shade.
- Clothes should not be bright, saturated colors - this can give the eyes an additional tint. Therefore, it is better that the clothes are close in color to the skin color or in pastel shades.
So, in clothes that are close to the color of your skin, in a calm and relaxed state, go to the window and carefully examine your eyes in the mirror. If you do not have vision problems (for example, color blindness), then you can easily determine the shade of the iris.
Blue
This color, as we have already mentioned, is the result of a mutation in the HERC2 gene that occurred at the dawn of humanity. Because of this mutation, those with light-colored eyes have reduced melanin production in the iris, while increasing the density of collagen fibers in the stroma, which have a whitish or grayish tint, making them lighter than blue. Blue eyes are widespread among Europeans, and especially among residents of Northern Europe and the Baltic countries (for example, in Denmark, blue-eyed people make up almost 92% of the population, in Estonia - almost 99%, and in Germany - about 75%). On the northern American continent, approximately 30% of the European race have blue eyes. Blue-eyed people can also be found among representatives of Central Asia and the Middle East. Blue eyes are also not uncommon among Ashkenazi Jews (53%).
Among famous personalities with blue eyes are actresses Liv Tyler and Christina Hendricks, musician Sting. Albert Einstein had blue-gray eyes, and Napoleon had blue eyes.
Blue
This is a brighter and more saturated blue color (such eyes are usually found in newborns), and this is explained by the lower density of collagen fibers in the iris than in blue eyes, and its lower melanin content. In fact, there are no blue or cyan pigments in the iris of the eye at all, and the blue (blue) color is the result of dispersed color in the stroma. The lower the density of stromal fibers, the richer the blue color appears. Blue eye color is quite rare, and they are more impressive than blue ones (probably because they are more noticeable?).
Among those lucky enough to have blue eyes are famous personalities - American actor Brad Pitt, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Grey
For some, this is almost the same color as blue (and they are really similar), but if with blue eyes the stroma density is dense, then with gray eyes it is even a little denser - the eyes look blue-gray, gray. Residents of Northern and Eastern Europe can boast of gray eyes. For example, in the middle of the last century, more than half of the Russian population had gray eyes. Today, the percentage of gray-eyed residents of this region has remained virtually unchanged. People with gray eyes can also be found in parts of North West Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.
Such famous athletes as chess player Garry Kasparov, runner Nikolai Borzov, sambo wrestler and judoka Fedor Emelianenko have gray eyes. The famous singer Alla Pugacheva also has gray eyes.
Green
The rarest eye color. Only 2% of the planet's population can boast of green eyes, and they most often live in Central and Northern Europe (Iceland, the Netherlands), and most of them are women. The green color of the eyes is explained by a small amount of melanin in the membrane and the presence of a yellow or light brown pigment - lipofuscin - in its outer layer. In combination with the blue color, the eyes appear green, but the color of the iris is uneven and has many different shades. Perhaps the red hair gene plays a role in the formation of this eye color.
Representatives of green-eyed people are such actresses as Angelina Jolie, Demi Moore, Olivia Wide, as well as ballerina Anastasia Volochkova.
Amber
This color has a monotonous light yellow-brown color, and can sometimes have a golden-green or reddish-copper hue. This is due to the lipofuscin pigment, which is also found in green eyes. Amber color is divided into two tones - light (yellow-brown) and dark (red-brown and dark coral). Be that as it may, this eye color always arouses interest: it is very noticeable and fascinating. According to historians, Stalin and Lenin had this eye color - two controversial personalities who influenced the fate of millions of people.
Yellow
An extremely rare color for the eyes, and it occurs in cases where the vessels of the iris contain very pale lipofuscin. Unfortunately, in most cases this eye color is associated with kidney disease.
Olive (walnut, marsh, green-brown, beer).
Typically, this is the result of mixing colors. The outer layer of the iris of such eyes has a fairly moderate content of melanin - hence the hazel color (a combination of brown and light blue or blue). Unlike amber, the color of the eyes is not monotonous, but rather heterogeneous. Looking into such eyes, you don’t understand what color they are? On the one hand, dark, but not brown; at the same time not green and not gray. The color is not uniform. Moreover, depending on the lighting, they can change - from golden to brown-green or brown. Representatives of marsh or olive eyes are Emma Watts and Julia Roberts.
Brown eyes
In this case, the iris of the eyes contains a lot of melanin, which leads to the absorption of both low-frequency and high-frequency light (the eye can easily cope with a large amount of light), and the sum of the reflected light gives a brown color. Brown eyes are common among residents of Asia, Australia, Africa, Oceania, North and South America. Famous representatives of brown-eyed humanity are Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Alexander Lukashenko. The artists Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, Shishkin, the hockey player Valery Kharlamov, and the boxing brothers Vitaly and Vladimir Klitschko had brown eyes.
Black eyes
The iris of such eyes has a very high concentration of melanin, and therefore the light falling on them is almost completely absorbed. In addition, even the color of the eyeball may have a yellowish or grayish tint. Black eye color is common in South, East and Southeast Asia, and is also characteristic of representatives of the Mongoloid and Negroid races. Among representatives of these peoples, children are immediately born with a dark iris. American actress Salma Hayek, Japanese artist Sesshu, and Japanese composer Akutagawa have black eyes.
Congenital disorders
However, some people find it difficult to determine the color of their eyes due to certain congenital disorders (abnormalities).
It happens that a person completely or partially lacks the iris, and this phenomenon is called aniridia.
It is extremely rare (on average 1 person in 20 thousand) that a deviation such as albinism occurs, in which the eyes may be red. This is due to the lack of melanin in both layers of the iris, and in this case, the color of the eye is determined by the color of the blood in the vessels of the iris. In some cases, mixing the blue color of the stroma and the red color can produce violet.
Heterochromia is a difference in the color of the irises of the eyes, which can be either complete or partial (sectoral). In such cases, the color of the eyes may differ completely from each other (eyes of different colors) or part of the iris may differ from the rest of its “color.” Heterochromia can be either congenital or acquired - as a consequence of a disease or injury.
About 1% of the world's inhabitants have different colored irises in their left and right eyes. A striking example of such a feature can be the American actress of Ukrainian origin Mila Kunis. This deviation is also observed in another American actress - Demi Moore.
And finally
We have already said that eye color can change throughout life. However, this can happen not only with age, but also in other cases, for example:
- in extreme cold;
- when changing artificial and daylight;
- when changing clothes.
Eyes of light shades - blue, gray, green - are most susceptible to such changes.
Some interesting facts:
- The whites of the eyes help determine the direction of the interlocutor’s gaze and his inner mood.
- The human eye distinguishes 7 primary colors (colors of the rainbow) and up to 10,000 of their shades.
- You can't sneeze with your eyes open!
Our eyes are not only the mirror of our souls, but also a huge gift to us from Mother Nature - our “window” into the colorful world with all its beauties.
Take care of your eyes and be healthy!
The most interesting thing for future parents is to think whether the baby will be a girl or a boy, whose nose the baby will have and what kind of eyes he will have - blue, like his mother's, brown, like his grandfather's, or maybe green, like his great-grandmother's? With gender, it’s somehow simpler, on an ultrasound, if the mother wants, they will most likely tell who will be born, but what about eye color? After all, I can’t wait to imagine how the baby will be born! With appearance, everything is not so simple, but the “mirror of the soul”... You can guess the color of the child’s eyes. A table for determining the shade of the iris exists and will help with this.
Newborn's eyes
What color the baby's eyes will be is determined in the first trimester of pregnancy, or more precisely towards its end, in the eleventh week. But almost without exception, babies are born with only occasionally dark-eyed newborns. This does not mean that the color will not change. By about a year, sometimes even by three to five, the eyes become the way nature intended them, or, if you want, which genes predominate in the baby. The child's eye color changes just in time for this period of life, starting from 6-9 months. Only in brown-eyed people will it become permanent in the first months. It happens that a baby is born with eyes of different colors. This phenomenon occurs in approximately one percent of cases out of a hundred and is called heterochromia.
Melanin, which is responsible for the color of the eyes and is released when exposed to light, is simply not produced in the mother’s tummy. This explains why all newborns have the same. So, don’t torture yourself trying to discern the color of your beloved baby’s eyes. Be patient, you will soon see what the baby is like.
Child's eye color and genetics
Many people remember how they said in biology classes that brown eye color dominates over others. This, of course, is true, but even if the eyes of both mothers and fathers are the same, there is still a small chance of giving birth to a child with green eyes or a blue iris. So put jealousy aside, turn on your brains and begin to figure out why, what and why. It’s no secret that some couples break up precisely because brown-eyed parents give birth to a bright-eyed child.
Of course, relying on science, you can understand genetics. After all, it is she who gives the answer to the question of what eye color the child will have. There is an agreement that eyes, like hair, are inherited according to the principle of the predominance of genes responsible for dark color. Gregor Mendel, a scientist-monk, discovered this law of inheritance more than a hundred years ago. For example, with dark parents the children will most likely be the same, but with light parents it will be the other way around. A child born from people with different phenotypes may be average in hair and eye color - between both. Naturally, there are exceptions, but these are rare.
Determining eye color
Everything described above can be presented in table form. Using it, everyone will presumably determine the color of the baby’s eyes.
| parents eye color | baby eye color | ||||
| brown | green | brown | green | ||
| ++ | 75% | 18,75% | 6,25% | ||
| + | + | 50% | 37,5% | 12,5% | |
| + | + | 50% | 0% | 50% | |
| ++ | 75% | 25% | |||
| + | + | 0% | 50% | 50% | |
| ++ | 0% | 1% | 99% | ||
It is not difficult to understand what the child’s eye color will be. The table according to which this can be done confirms Mendel’s law, but the same exceptions to the rules remain in the form of a small percentage. No one knows what nature will do.
By the way, the fact that dark color is dominant at the genetic level has led to the predominance of brown-eyed people throughout the world. According to some reports, the child will not have light eye color at all in the future.
Blue-eyed people, according to scientists, did not exist at all ten thousand years ago. Everyone with this iris shade has the same ancestor, according to researchers.
Has fewer people than any other. Due to the fact that only every fiftieth inhabitant has this shade, at different times and among different peoples, according to tradition, they were either burned at the stake, or praised and treated with respect, endowed with witchcraft abilities in both cases. And even today people with brown eyes hear that they have an evil eye and can put the evil eye on someone.
Among the various variations of the three main shades of the iris, it is very rare to find people with red eyes from blood vessels. Although they look unpleasant and even scary, they are not to blame for the fact that they were born albinos. Melanin, due to which the irises of the eyes differ in color, is practically absent in such people.
Eyes are the mirror of the soul
And one more thing, some people paid attention to it, some didn’t, but the eye color of most, if not all, light-eyed people changes depending on their mood, well-being, color of clothing, and in stressful situations.
The color of a child’s eyes is no exception. The table above will not tell you about this, and there are no specific rules here. Everything is individual. Basically, when the baby is hungry, the eyes darken. and is capricious - they become cloudy. If she cries, the color is closer to green, and when she is happy with everything, the color is closer to blue. Maybe this is why they say that the eyes are the mirror of the soul.
Many parents of the unborn baby and their relatives try to determine the color of the child’s eyes. The table created for this helps them, of course. But it’s more important that the baby is born healthy. And it is much more interesting to watch how the baby will change and what his eyes, nose, hair will become, and not know in advance. The little one will grow up, and you will see whether he is bright-eyed or vice versa.
The color of a child’s eyes is determined by genetics and nothing else. This science makes it possible, at least to some extent, to find out a lot about your baby, what he will look like, and even what diseases he will inherit. But unfortunately, moms and dads won’t be able to know 100% whether their beloved baby will look at you with blue, brown or green eyes.
Eye color of a newborn baby
All babies are born with blue eyes. And this is far from a myth, although there is a percentage of babies who are born with a dark iris. It all depends on the amount of melanin - a pigment that saturates our skin with a beautiful dark shade, and our eyes with a dark chocolate color. Children, when born, have practically no melanin (there is a very small amount of pigment), so light skin color and blue eyes are the norm and standard. Although, if both parents are dark-skinned and everyone in the family is dark-eyed, the child may be born with light brown eyes, since they have a larger amount of pigment in the iris than those with light eyes. Over time, melanin appears and accumulates more and more in the iris of the eyes, and they can change their color.
There are exceptions, for example, if the pigment is completely absent, the baby may be born with red eyes, like albino eyes, because its capillaries are completely visible. Another exception is the disease heterochromia, in which case the baby will be born with eyes of different colors, for example, one gray, the other green-brown.
When does a child's eye color change?
Thanks to genetic data, many babies change their eye color in favor of the one laid down by their parents (the dominant gene of one of the parents). Or rather, it changes on its own, at the age of about 9 months, sometimes earlier, but mostly later.
The exact and final eye color of a child can be seen at the age of two years. Some children's eyes may darken even at three or four years old. There are known cases that already in adulthood, at school, for example, children acquired a different eye color, from bright blue irises they turned into brown eyes. When enough melanin has accumulated, then the eyes decide on color.
In general, eye color is determined by genetics, but if we talk specifically about the shade itself, then the amount of melanin in the iris of the eye plays a role, how much more or less there is, depends on whether the child will have blue, green, or brown color.
What color will the child's eyes be?
It is not necessary that eye color can change from gray to brown. Even if the parents are proud owners of dark brown eyes, the baby may inherit a light shade from distant relatives, for example, a great-grandfather or great-great-grandmother. Genetic tests, analyzes and tasks can, although not 100%, reveal the secret of what eye color a child will have after birth.
It all depends on what color eyes the parents have. In their DNA there are dominant and recessive genes that are responsible for the color of the eyes and other things, so the gene for the dark shade of the iris is dominant, that is, the winner, it is stronger, which means it will easily defeat the recessive, weak gene for light eyes, blue or light-colored. green.
There are exceptions when both parents are brown-eyed, but the child, on the contrary, has a light eye shade. There is nothing surprising in this, since genes are mixed over generations, and one gene may be lost, but found in your baby. For example, when a light-skinned couple gives birth to a dark-skinned baby, and after all the genetic tests it becomes clear that the parents, several generations ago, had, for example, a dark-skinned great-great-grandfather.
Blue eye color in a child
It would seem, what is the difference between blue and blue eye colors, by and large. But science and medicine think differently. Let's look a little more closely, the eye has an outer (ectodermal) and an inner (endodermal) layer of the iris, the inner layer is filled with melanin, to a greater or lesser extent. But the outer one, especially in infants, contains a tiny fraction of pigment, and the less it is, as well as the less density of the ectodermal (outer) layer of the iris, the brighter and lighter the color of the child’s eyes.
But do not be mistaken that the eye has blue fibers, this is not so. When light falls on the stroma (a layer of eye tissue consisting of fibers and vessels) of the iris, it is scattered, some rays are absorbed by the endodermal layer (the inner one filled with melanin), and some are reflected, it all depends on the frequency of the rays (high frequency and low frequency rays). Thus, we see a certain eye color in the baby, in this case blue.
Gray or blue eye color in a child
The gray and blue color of the baby's eyes is also due to the density of the outer shell of the iris. The more densely packed the fibers (the fibers of the outer layer have a lightish tint) of the ectodermal layer of the iris, the lighter the tint they will have. Light gray eyes - the fiber density of the outer layer is very high.
Interestingly, blue and gray eyes are predominantly found among Europeans. Today, this simple and unpretentious eye shade (meaning blue) appeared as a result of a mutation in our genes. This happened about 8 thousand years ago; before that there were no people with a similar blue tint. Therefore, we can say that blue eye color in a child is not uncommon.
Green eye color in a child
People practically don’t have completely green eyes; this is rare, because usually babies have eyes with a green tint, a marsh color or interspersed with brown dots; such eyes are also called “honey eyes”. But no matter what shade of green a child’s eyes are, this is due to a small amount of melanin pigment.
Also, the green color of a child’s eyes appears due to the presence in the outer layer of the iris of another pigment that has a light brownish tint, lipofuscin. Because of which, together with scattered light and rays that absorb the inner pigmented layer of the iris, various shades of green are obtained, from light to dark, swampy.
Along with green eyes, the child, judging by genetic statistics, also gets the gene that determines red hair color. And one more fact: there are many more green-eyed girls and women on the planet than men. It is also interesting that lipofuscin has the ability to both accumulate and disappear from cells, which is probably why people have chameleon eyes only when their base eye color is green.
Brown and black eye color in a child
Brown eyes, since the gene carrying this shade information is dominant, are the most common. There are the largest number of people in the world with brown eyes. A large amount of melanin pigment in the iris of a baby’s eye determines this shade.
A few words about the black tint of the baby’s eyes, not brown, but black. This is not a rare phenomenon, but is common among Asians. The fact is that the amount of pigment in the outer layer of the iris is very large; from birth, babies' eyes become very dark. Light, when it hits the iris and stroma, is completely absorbed, so other shades are not visible.
It is interesting that the largest number of brown-eyed children are born in countries with hot climates, for example, in South America and Africa. It's all about genetics and such an interesting thing as evolution. Nature has given us an excellent chance to adapt to the weather and climatic conditions, since in warm countries it is very sunny, a person needs to be protected from burns and heatstroke, etc. Evolution kindly provided a large amount of melanin to peoples living in hot countries, thereby protecting them from the scorching sun. But this is not 100% of cases; there is always a chance that the child’s eye color will be something you have never even seen.
The babies even have yellow and purple eyes. The purple tint is very rare, practically never found, such an interesting anomaly is almost always caused by albinism. This also applies to red-eyed newborn babies, through the discolored iris and due to the complete absence of melanin, the blood vessels and capillaries become illuminated. Therefore, it is difficult for people with albinism to look at the sun, it is painful and even dangerous.
This is interesting:
Eye color may change. Most often this happens: in extreme cold; when changing artificial light to daylight; when changing the color of clothes. Eyes of blue, gray and green shades are most susceptible to such fluctuations.
About 1% of people on the globe have a different color of the left iris
and right eye.
On average, 1 person in 20 thousand is born with a so-called albino.
The iris of the human eye is individual. It can be used to determine a person's identity, just like fingerprints.
The whites of the eyes help to better determine the internal mood and direction of the interlocutor’s gaze.
There are only 7 primary colors that the human eye can distinguish. These colors of the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. In addition to the primary colors, a person can distinguish up to 100,000 shades.
You won't be able to sneeze with your eyes open!
Nature and genes reward us with a certain eye color. Sometimes we don’t really pay attention to what kind of eyes we have, we get used to the color that we have since birth. Many people, especially men, if asked what eye color they have, will find it difficult to answer because they do not pay special attention to such questions. But women, the people, are more demanding of themselves, and often such desires arise that, at first glance, cannot be fulfilled, or there are very few ideas for their implementation. And lately people have often been asked how to change their eye color.
People always want to correct nature, what is transmitted by genes, and every day they invent and implement different methods that help them to be more perfect and beautiful. If earlier it seemed that only with the help of lenses it was possible to change the color of the eyes, now the number of methods has increased significantly, and each person can individually choose which one he wants for himself. Since these methods differ very much in price: from free to several thousand dollars.
But it happens that a change in eye color in an adult begins to occur on its own. In this case, you need to consult a doctor, as these may be signs of diseases such as: Huntington's disease, heterochromia, pigmentary glaucoma.
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Ways to change eye color
- Method 1. One way is to change your eye color using makeup. This is a fairly simple and common method if you want to slightly change the shade of your eyes. In this case, many women turn to professional makeup artists who are well versed in colors and select the right shadow palette for a specific eye color. There is a theory according to which there are shades that next to a certain color make the main color much darker. You can pay attention to the fact that in different weather, in the morning or evening, our eyes sometimes change color. In the sun, brown eyes acquire a golden tint, and grayish in artificial light. Blue against purple becomes turquoise.
To change your eye color using makeup, you can turn to the tips that nature provides. When applying makeup, you need to use diametrically opposite colors of the spectral circle. If you use green for makeup, you can visually make them blue or, conversely, golden. Violet and plum shades help turn blue eyes green. And if you use an orange color palette, you can turn gray eyes into blue ones.
- Method 2. You can visually change the shade with the help of properly selected clothes. If there is blue in the outfit, then gray eyes will appear blue. And in order to make dull green eyes bright and expressive, clothes should be lilac or green.
- Method 3. It happens that the color of the eyes itself changes from different emotions, both positive and negative. Anger, joy, fear, pain, eyes can react to any feeling.
- Method 4. The most common method is also the selection of tinted or colored lenses. If your eyes are light, there will be no problem choosing tinted lenses; these are not suitable for dark eyes, as they will not change color. For them you need to select colored lenses to radically change the color.
Rules to follow when wearing lenses:
- We must remember that lenses have a service life
- You can only wear them a few hours a day
- requires special care with certain products
- maintain hygiene. Do not dress with dirty hands
- If you feel discomfort all the time, and it doesn’t go away, but you can’t get used to it, then it’s better not to use lenses.
- Method 5. If you have light eyes and want to make them darker, you can use prostaglandin hormone eye drops. But this is a rather risky method, as side effects may occur, and such drops are prescribed only with a prescription. If you use them for a long time, the eyeball may lose oxygen. The shade of your eyes will change in about a month and a half.
- Method 6. Changing eye color is also done with laser correction. This is a rather expensive method, but you can one hundred percent achieve the color you want. Excess pigments are removed with rays, and brown eyes can be turned blue.
Disadvantages of the laser procedure:
- a weighty argument is the price, somewhere around 5000–8000 thousand dollars, which does not allow everyone who wants to do it
- side effects have not been fully identified, this procedure is still under research
- You can't change the color back
- there is a chance of getting double vision and fear of light.
- Method 7. The most radical measure is surgery. If earlier operations were performed to restore vision and remove some defects, now an implant of any color that you choose is also installed in the eye. The advantage is that it can be removed, that is, the process is reversible, unlike the laser procedure.
Consequences that may occur:
- glaucoma
- cataract
- corneal detachment
