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Reverse Engineering a Contact Lens

Processed measurement data from a contact lens to recreate it.

Used MATLAB analysis and manipulation techniques along with underlying assumptions about the shape of optical contact lenses to create a theoretical contact lens surface from incomplete measured data.
The theoretical surface was then imported into a CAD package that would allow recreating the lens. Resulting "theoretical" lenses tested as clinically equivalent to the test lenses indicating a robust reverse engineering process.

Gil Zimmerman
Biomedical Engineer Rochester, NY