<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you everyone for your thoughts and suggestions. <br><br></div>Masahiro had the answer I was hoping for! The centrad is the answer!<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:07 PM, 石井 雅博 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.ishii@scu.ac.jp" target="_blank">m.ishii@scu.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Some optometrists use centrad that is a unit of angular measure equal<br>
to 1/100 of a rad or about 0.57 deg.<br>
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Masahiro Ishii<br>
School of Design, Sapporo City University<br>
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I'm helping to build some virtual reality vision tests for optometrists to use. Generally optometrists want visual angle to be measured in prism diopters (PD). But PD are not a nice unit: they are nonlinear. For example, 40 PD = atan(40/100) = 0.38 radian, but 40 * (1 PD) = 0.40 radian.<br>
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Is there any unit out there--or should we define a new one, the "constant prism diopter"--that is equal to 1/100 radians?<br>
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Has anyone tried simply declaring that, for your use, 1 PD will be equal to ~0.573 deg? How did your optometrist friends react to that?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Ben<br>
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Benjamin T. Backus, PhD<br>
</span>Chief Science Officer, Vivid Vision, Inc.<<a href="https://seevividly.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seevividly.com</a>><br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">525 York St., San Francisco, CA 94110, USA<br>
Tel. +1-415-787-7830<br>
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Associate Professor, SUNY College of Optometry, New York, NY<br>
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