File:Nearsight-disk-2006-1.gif

Summary
I, Dale Mahalko, currently located at the geographical location Gilman, WI, USA, created this image on Aug 17, 2006.

This an image (1 of 2) that attempts to show what an extremely nearsighted person such as myself is able to see when viewing a single bright light source with a dark background, and not wearing any corrective optics.

The view afforded by extreme (-9 Diopter) nearsightedness is not necessarily equivalent to blindness, but just of something different not visible to people with normal 20/20 vision... though not necessarily all that useful in daily life, either.

This was whipped up using MS Paint and is not a completely accurate view. The perimeter of the light disk is not smooth as shown here but rather more jagged, and the corneal shape is not necessarily perfectly circular, either. I may create an improved version of this, using a better image editor, at some later time.