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The bizarre origin of the fisheye lens
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The heavily distorted, aggressively wide lens that defined 1990s skateboarding videos was actually invented for serious academic science. In the 1920s, meteorologists desperately needed a way to capture the entire hemispherical sky in a single image to aggressively study cloud formations. They accidentally created an optic that severely warped reality, making everything look like a bizarre alien fever dream.
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