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minus-squaremindbleachlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoTelescopes suffer distortion as an Airy disk. Named after George Biddel Airy. Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Metropolis light transport in raytracing is named after Nicholas Metropolis, of the Manhattan project. And presumably pronounced met-RO-po-lis. In radiology, the Radon transform, after Dr. Johann Radon. It’s not nuclear medicine. His doctorate was in mathematics.
Telescopes suffer distortion as an Airy disk. Named after George Biddel Airy.
Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
Metropolis light transport in raytracing is named after Nicholas Metropolis, of the Manhattan project. And presumably pronounced met-RO-po-lis.
In radiology, the Radon transform, after Dr. Johann Radon. It’s not nuclear medicine. His doctorate was in mathematics.
How in the world you know all that?!
Too much time on Wikipedia.