Optical Focus

While researching for ideas for our current project, I came across this tidbit from Wikipedia. It’s from a short article about optical focus:

An image, or image point or region, is in focus if light from object points is converged almost as much as possible in the image, and out of focus if light is not well converged. The border between these is sometimes defined using a circle of confusion criterion.

 

Real lenses do not focus all rays perfectly, so that even at best focus, a point is imaged as a spot rather than a point. The smallest such spot that a lens can produce is often referred to as the circle of least confusion.

I found this interesting… and thought provoking. I love it when science converges with our projects. Here’s what I think is interesting about this:

• If bringing light in to a single point is optical focus and brings image clarity ~ it follows then that turning the light of our awareness onto a single point will also bring focus and clarity.
• If the light is not well converged, the image will be out of focus ~ could that mean that if our attention and awareness is not well converged, our results will be fuzzy and out of focus?
• Even in optical science there is a “circle of confusion.” Isn’t this interesting?
• Real lenses do not focus all rays perfectly, and so a point is imaged as a spot rather than a point ~ could we take that to mean that we do not have to be perfectly laser sharp in our focus as long as the “spot” is well defined and condensed to it’s smallest aspect?
• The Circle of Least Confusion ~ I love that idea!

So these are my random thoughts this morning. What about you? Any thoughts, ideas, or insights? Is it really true that life is like a camera?