june 2013 CataraCt & refraCtive Surgery today 19 AlAn S. CrAndAll, Md I would plan on using iris hooks to keep the iris from interfering with phacoemulsification, so I would create two extra paracenteses. If the astigmatism were regular, I would implant a toric IOL. If the astigmatism were irregular, I would not address it initially. Given the amount of trauma to the eye, my primary concern wou...

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Visual simulation using CG and VR has attracted wide attention in the machine vision field. This paper proposes a method of modeling and visualizing pearls that will be the central technique of a pearl-quality evaluation simulator. Pearls manifest a very specific optical phenomenon that is not dependent on the direction of the light source. To investigate this feature, we propose a physical mod...